I use apple mail here as well as an iPhone. If I have to setup 3 differing accounts for this to work, it is going to become very inconvenient. I have tried with the instructions as given on the gmail site, but my contacts, calendar and other stuff just won't synch. any other solutions?
-eric On May 9, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote: > I only had to set up two accounts. One handles mail, calendar and notes. This > is just using the default setup for Gmail. The second is for contacts and > uses the CardDav protocol. > > On 05/09/2013 12:47 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I should have edited the subject line because a "CalDAV" account is for >> syncing calendars, you need to use a "CardDAV" account to sync contacts. I >> still think it's a pain in the neck, if you use Google and want to sync >> mail, contacts and calendar you have to set up 3 different accounts, if you >> use Outlook.com with Exchange Active Sync you set it up once and it does it >> all. I'm sure glad I decided to go with Hotmail/Windows Live 4 years ago >> when I decided to stop using my provider's email, yes, changing email >> addresses is a bit of work, but I still have my provider's email so one can >> do it over time, but once it's done it's well worth it. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of matthew Dyer >> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:17 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: caldav account to sync google contacts >> >> Hi, >> >> Could you please send a link to the steps as I would like to do this as >> well. >> >> Matthew >> >> >> On May 8, 2013, at 3:00 PM, anouk radix wrote: >> >>> Hi, I went googling and found out that i can sync my goglecontacts through >> caldav. I followed the steps and added the account but now still dont see >> the option to make this the standard contacts account and also contacts are >> not selected as the items that are synced with htis account. I logged into >> the google website but did not get any messages there as if i should >> ahthorize it. >>> What might i be doing wrong? >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.