Comments on: Synchronize Your Google Contacts, Calendar & RSS In Thunderbird

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:31:19 +0000

No me convence ninguno de los 2 metodos, pero seguirÃ© buscando por la web a ver si puedo sincronizar los feeds. De todos modos muy buenos sus aportes.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:12:33 +0000

I’ve been using thunderbird for reading my gmail and google apps accounts via imap, and synching contacts and calendar with Zindus and Lightning/Google Provider for around a year now. For RSS I much prefer thunderbird’s interface to google reader, but then I can’t sync feeds between different computers. Searching for a solution to that problem is what brought me to your post.

But I dislike the google reader interface so much that I would never use it inside thunderbird. Instead I’m test a free service feedmyinbox.com that will email any rss feed to you. You don’t even have to create an account (just click a link in a confirmation email) but if you do create an account you can manage all your feeds in a nice control panel. One drawback is it seems to have a delay of up to a day in reading new feeds and emailing them to you. I just set up a test feed but haven’t received anything yet to confirm whether it works well. If it does, I plan to set up filters in gmail to move the feed emails to their own folder. Fingers crossed.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:03:57 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I especially found the idea of syncing RSS with Google Reader useful.

By: Ashwin / Thoughts Unlimited

Ashwin / Thoughts Unlimited — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:53:42 +0000

I am actively using Outlook for my Gmail. But this article tempts me to try out Thunderbird.

Nicely written!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:04:07 +0000

Hi Mark

I was thinking of switching to Thunderbird from Outlook. But read a few articles that said Thunderbird was not being actively developed. Could you shed some light on this?

Thanks.

By: Volodyaka

Volodyaka — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:48:46 +0000

I think the thunderbird is the best spam server in the world.

By: CLibra

CLibra — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:51:46 +0000

I much prefer using CalDAV over Provider to sync Google Calendar, ‘cos changes made offline will sync upon next connection. CalDAV is a more native approach and it also lets you pick up invitations via email, which as far as I’m aware, Provider can’t do. And best of all, it’s actually maintained by Google.

By the way, thanks for linking to my blog
Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!

By: CLibra

CLibra — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:43:40 +0000

By the way, thanks for linking to my blog