Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by bertrandsilva on Dec. 30, 2009 ·

I did a test and it looks to work greatly. But I really hate to work with mailing lists, just because the contacts appear at two places.

There is any way to make this add-on work with many address books, instead of working with mailing lists?

Thanks a lot!, and keep doing the great job!!!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.2.11). 

by Josh Geenen (Developer) on Jan. 1, 2010 ·

Hello,

With version 0.2 you have three main options for what to synchronize:
1. All contacts and all groups (groups are synchronized with mailing lists)
2. All contacts and no groups
3. One group (My Contacts).

These are controlled by two preferences as described here: http://www.pirules.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=gContactSync+Preferences#Main_Preferences under "Groups and Mailing Lists". Note that you can only synchronize one Google Account with one and only one address book in 0.2.

If you uncheck "Synchronize Groups with Mailing Lists" you will only synchronize your contacts and ignore the groups they are in. This will tell you that the Address Book has to be 'reset' (all contacts and mailing lists will be removed from Thunderbird) and you will have to restart Thunderbird. Next time you synchronize your contacts will show up in that AB again but there won't be any mailing lists.

I'm working on Version 0.3 which allows you to customize exactly what is synchronized with each address book. You still have the three options, but you can pick which Group is synchronized with an address book and you can synchronize multiple address books with the same Google Account. See this page for more details: http://www.pirules.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Version+0.3+Alpha

Regards,

Josh