Gmail's particularities Archiving messages Gmail's support articles on email clients.Lastly, review Google's recommended settings for Thunderbird so that your local actions, such as labelling and deleting, correspond to those which Gmail takes and do not cause any conflicts.įor more detailed information, please refer to: Thunderbird will begin downloading your existing messages. Click Done, sign in with your Google account if prompted. After you provide your account information (real name, email address, password), Thunderbird will automatically configure your Gmail connection. The Mail Account Setup dialog is displayed. Next, select File > New > Existing Mail Account…. See Google's article on “less secure apps” for help. If I updated both data bases manually it would take me less time.Double check that “Access for less secure apps” is enabled. Well, both files now have tons of duplicates and stops with prompts for (about) 10-15 contacts each time a sync is done. I check while GC is stalled waiting for my answer and sure enough the contact still exists in Outlook. It's been a week now and every time a sync runs I get 'Contact Missing in Outlook'. I reset the matches, set it to merge Outlook wins and ran a sync. At the end of this process I had the identical number of contacts in each program. I totally deleted my Google contacts and uploaded my (very clean) Outlook file. csv file so I can put the identical contact list into my Google contact.

Once I completed that I downloaded my contacts data to a. Got rid of duplicates, fixed phone number labels, etc. While doing so I took a full day to totally clean up my Outlook contacts. Recently my main email account moved over to Microsoft Exchange so I had to revamp my Outlook settings. Let me state that I only use GO Contacts for syncing contacts. However, lately it has become a burden to use. I've been using GO Contact ever since I gave up iTunes for syncing between my Outlook contacts and iPhone contacts.

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