Thunderbird Contacts, Hooooooooooooooo!

by Drew Olanoff (RSS feed) May 30th 2008 at 12:00PM

DownloadSquad reader Leni Mayo sent us a hot little tip. He has written a script called Zindus for Thunderbird which syncs Google contacts with the address book. It works on version 3.0a as well he says.

Here's a list of the fields that you'll be able to move from Google to Thunderbird:

Full Name
Primary Email address and Second Email address
Phone Numbers: Home, Work, Work Fax, Pager, Mobile
Instant Messaging (AIM)
Company and Title
Notes

There's a few caveats because Google handles contacts differently, so go check out Zindus homepage for a full explanation. It's worth it if you're a die-hard Thunderbirder.

Tags: address book, AddressBook, contacts, email, google, thunderbird

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iofthestorm said 4:24PM on 6-01-2008

Thanks! It's also worth it if you're a diehard GMail user who likes to use Thunderbird for the occasional message check or sending messages.

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