от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Янв. 1, 2010 · permalink

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

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Янв. 1, 2010 · permalink

Hello,

gContactSync uses mailing lists to synchronize the Groups that you have through Google Contacts (My Contacts, Family, Friends, Coworkers, etc.) by default. Mailing lists in Thunderbird were only intended to be used for contacts with unique e-mail addresses. If you add contacts to a mailing list without an e-mail address or with an e-mail address that is already contained in the list then the mailing list can essentially break and the Address Book will no longer function well enough to be synchronized.

gContactSync adds fake e-mail addresses to avoid breaking mailing lists. Starting with version 0.2.11 (added after your review) these fake e-mail addresses only when necessary. Previous versions added them to every contact without an e-mail address because I wanted to ensure that gContactSync wouldn't break any more mailing lists. This changed in 0.2.11 because I believe I found a way to add an e-mail address to contacts in a mailing list before they are added using Thunderbird or gContactSync.

If you upgrade to at least 0.2.11 and double-click on a contact to edit it the e-mail address will not appear there. Click OK and the fake address will only be added if it is necessary (only when it is in a mailing list).

Regards,

Josh

PS: I filed a bug report about blank e-mail addresses and mailing lists here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492695

от Josh Geenen (Разработчик) на Дек. 6, 2009 · permalink

1. I apologize for the freeze. Did you receive any sort of Unresponsive Script warning? If you ever try gContactSync again would you be willing to send me the first and last portions of the log (the first has basic info on Thunderbird and preferences and the last part will let me know what it was doing when it froze)?\r\n\r\n2. I\'m working on a better way of handling contacts without e-mail addresses. There is a hidden preference that allows only using this address when absolutely necessary (http://pirules.org/forum/index.php?topic=19.msg111#msg111) but I only recommend using it after I release 0.2.11.\r\n\r\n3. gContactSync adds phone number types (Home, Work, Mobile, etc.) to the existing Thunderbird fields and ignores the actual name of the phone number. This was done to allow multiple phone numbers of the same type and to include more types of phone numbers than Thunderbird allows. The issue with that is the column labels where the list of contacts is displayed still has the old labels which do not necessarily match the labels in individual contacts (See this post and the rest of the thread for more details: http://pirules.org/forum/index.php?topic=60.msg271#msg271). Version 0.3 may provide an option to use the existing fields instead of adding the new types and ignoring the column labels. This isn\'t really explained in the FAQ yet.\r\n\r\nThanks for the feedback!\r\n\r\nJosh\r\n\r\nPS: My contact information is in the \"Support\" section of the add-on description if you have more suggestions or questions.