With upgrading technology, thousands of applications are increasing data by day. Moreover, Gmail is one of the most popular email clients, which provides a specific range of services. Due to certain reason, many users want to import Gmail contacts into Thunderbird to make a task easier. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source and desktop-based email client among all the users. It is not just providing an email feature, but also organizes contacts, events, appointments, and tasks as well. Therefore, in the following section, we are going to discuss to let the users understand how to sync Gmail contacts to Thunderbird mail client.
“I was working in an organization where I use Gmail account. Now, I am leaving this industry so, I want to import Gmail contacts to Thunderbird email client. Therefore, I want to know that Can I export Gmail Address Book and then, import it into Mozilla Thunderbird profile. Kindly suggest me a relevant and quick solution”
2 Ways to Import Gmail Contacts to Thunderbird
There are two approaches that permit the users to import Gmail address book to Thunderbird email client. Let us follow below steps:
1. How to Export Contacts from Gmail Account
Go through the following steps to Export contacts from Gmail account as given below:
- Step 1: First, you have to login Google account.
- Step 2: Then, click on ‘Drop Down arrow’ and navigate Gmail on the left-hand side.
- Step 3: After that, choose ‘Contacts’. This will help to load all contacts within main Gmail Window.
- Step 4: Now, hit on ‘More’ option from a menu list.
- Step 5: Next, click ‘Export’ option. On some PCs, a warning message appears that the Export feature is not available in a new preview version of Contacts. In that case, select the option of ‘Go To Old Contacts’.
- Step 6: Contacts will open within a new tab. Select those contacts that you want to export by checking each of them. Or, you can select ‘All’ option. It will enable all the contacts.
- Step 7: Go to ‘More’ from the right top menu and choose ‘Export’ button.
- Step 8: A new dialog box gets open. Now, choose the ‘Selected Contacts’ according to first option and select ‘Outlook CSV format’ for another option and Press ‘Export’. A CSV file is downloaded to your desktop.
2. Steps to Import Gmail Contacts into Thunderbird Application
- Step 1: Firstly, you have to open Thunderbird and select ‘Address book’.
- Step 2: Then, Thunderbird contacts will open. Click on the ‘Tools’ from the top of Thunderbird. Next, choose ‘Import’ button.
- Step 3: Now, choose the ‘Address Books’ and then, click ‘Next’ to further continue.
- Step 4: After this, select ‘Text file (LDIF, .tab, .txt, .csv)’ option and choose ‘Next’ to move forward.
- Step 5: Under a new Explorer window, browse to the directory where saved contacts from Gmail account are located. Choose ‘All Files’ to view the CSV file and then, double click to select it.
- Step 6: From the Import Address Book dialog, it will permit to choose any contact attributes that you wish to import. You can choose many or all of them and press ‘OK’ button.
- Step 7: Finally, Your contacts have been successfully imported. A new list showing all Contacts will appear in the left pane of Mozilla Thunderbird Address wizard.
Here, Gmail contacts are successfully imported into Mozilla Thunderbird. Using the above steps you can only export contacts from Gmail to Thunderbird. If you want to import all Gmail emails to Thunderbird, then you can configure that particular account in Thunderbird. If you want to access Gmail emails without configuration, then you can download Gmail emails in MBOX format using Google Takeout (first you have to login into Gmail account) and then import MBOX file into Thunderbird using Mozilla Thunderbird Import Export Wizard Tool quickly and safely without losing data.
Also Read: How to Import AOL Mail to Gmail Manually
Final Thoughts
As everyone knows that Gmail and Mozilla Thunderbird both the applications play a significant role in business production. Along with this, we have already mentioned a complete manual procedure in a clear manner to let the users understand how to import Gmail contacts to Thunderbird account.
