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I'm using Windows Mail (which uses the windows contact store behind the scenes) to connect to the gmail imap server. I would like to have my gmail contacts available to me when using Mail.
How can I set up a two-way sync to automatically sync the Windows Contact store with Gmail Contacts?
Please note: there seems to be a lot of resources for how to sync to outlook, these solutions wouldn't work for me as I'm not using outlook.
Joel Martinez
Posted 2009-08-12T23:45:02.857
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As far as I know if you don't have a Google Apps account, there is no active bidirectional sync. You could just set up an imap Gmail account in Windows Mail, but there's no (official) tool to sync the changes you make locally back to Gmail.
You refer to the Outlook post, but I think I they concluded something the same there.
I recommended using GcalDaemon there, but I think it only gives you access to your addressbook.
Ivo Flipse
Posted 2009-08-12T23:45:02.857
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Windows Mail and GMail both understand the concept of a CSV, so I would export my GMail contacts to a CSV then import the CSV in Windows Mail.
EBGreen
Posted 2009-08-12T23:45:02.857
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2sorry, I should have clarified, a one time import is not what I'm looking for. I updated the question to clarify that I'm looking for a two-way automatic sync so the two stores stay updated. – Joel Martinez – 2009-08-13T01:35:54.640
Good luck with that then. – EBGreen – 2009-08-13T02:42:00.677
Anyone know how to import to Google Contacts from Windows Contacts? http://superuser.com/questions/902349/how-to-import-windows-contacts-to-google-contacts
– Colonel Panic – 2015-04-16T13:27:23.7401
The Best Way to Keep Outlook Express Address Book Automatically Synchronized with Google Contacts: http://androidnaut.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-way-to-keep-outlook-express.html
– None – 2011-01-22T21:12:16.760