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Multiple Gmail/Google "Connections"
I have heard that there will be the option in the near future to synchronize Soocial with multiple Gmail/Google accounts.
For clarification, I have a couple questions regarding this feature:
- Will it make all connections have the same contact information?
- How often will it synchronize the two Gmail/Google accounts with one another?
For clarification, I have a couple questions regarding this feature:
- Will it make all connections have the same contact information?
- How often will it synchronize the two Gmail/Google accounts with one another?
I’m excited about syncing two gmail accounts
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Inappropriate?Logan, keeping us busy tonight!
To answer your questions:
1. Yes, it will mean all your GMail connections have the same contact information. We are planning to add some filter options so you could customize what contacts you want synced to what GMail account.
2. Right now it syncs every hour, we are looking at decreasing that time to about 10 minutes, but this also depends on the scalability issues we are facing. If you change something in the webapp though, the change should only take minutes to get to GMail.
I’m happy to solve your GMail syncing needs
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Excellent! Looks like I'll be sticking with Soocial after all. Thanks! -
Inappropriate?Any new progress on this? I tried adding a second gmail account, and it seemed to let me, except it just ended up editing the first one - had to wipe the gmail account and start over
I’m glad that it's already being thought about
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Inappropriate?I vote for this as well! -
Inappropriate?Would love this for Google apps users
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Inappropriate?Can't wait to see this one myself. This is a killer app for me.
I’m excited to see it.
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Inappropriate?It's on the list. But there are some other things screaming louder for our attention. Some behind the scene things, like making our servers more stable and scalable. Also working hard at making some clients ready for release.
I’m happy lots is happening behind the scenes
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Inappropriate?For what it's worth, I'm interested in this feature too. I have a standard gmail account and two google apps accounts (work and personal). I'd love to be able to sync across all three.
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Inappropriate?Please let us know when this feature becomes available. It's a must-have for me.
I’m a little disappointed it's taking so long.
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Inappropriate?I have 2 Gmail and 2-4 Google Apps accounts. I've been looking forward to this feature for awhile, and am excited to see it!
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?Please, let me know when this feature is going to be available. I have work (hosted) Gmail and personal free Gmail that need to be "connected"
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Inappropriate?I realise that there are higher priority things (like for example symbian series 60 3d edition syncing :P but I would also really appreciate being able to sync multiple google mail accounts.
I’m indifferent
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Inappropriate?I'm interested in this as well! My husband and I love that we can use Soocial to sync up our address books on the computer - if we can get it to work with Gmail, that would be killer. We currently share a Soocial account, though if there were also a way to sync between users on Soocial, that would solve our particular issue! -
Inappropriate?This is a must have for me - this coupled with over the air iPhone support.
I’m hopeful.
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Right - one problem down, one to go! ;-)
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Inappropriate?Just in case it's useful for anyone. I've recently been trying to centralise on one google account (my personal apps for domains account). I still have my gmail account but, by enabling POP access, collect all the email to that account in my apps gmail account. That also allows me to send from my gmail account from my apps account. Doing that made it easier for me to centralise all my contacts in the apps gmail account and connect soocial to that one account. The syncing that's being requested will result in you having a shared address book across all gmail accounts so I wonder whether there really are that many downsides (I'm sure there probably are and I've just over looked them) to just merging your gmail accounts as I've described above.4 Comments Add a comment
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Chris, that's a solution that I've experimented with before. Unfortunatelly however, when sending an email in this configuration, both email addresses are revealed to the sender if they are using Outlook (and probably other mail clients). The from address reads as "GApps Account (xyz@xyz.com) on Behalf of GMail Account (xyz@gmail.com)". This was the deal breaker for me on that solution.
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Hey Mark, I really didn't know it did that until you just pointed it out. I tested it by sending an email to Hotmail and saw the 'on behalf of'. I've just been reading a little about it and although I can understand why gmail populate the sender field with your gmail address I'm not qualified to know whether it's really necessary in the real world (i.e. I don't know how many mail servers would reject an email from the gmail servers if the sender header wasn't populated and the from address wasn't a gmail address).
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Sorry Mark, I've just thought a bit more about what you've written. Assuming you have two accounts (one gapps, one gmail) then I believe your gmail address is only exposed if you send from gapps within gmail, i.e. you're using your gmail account as the primary. I use my gapps account as primary and occasionally send from gmail in there. Granted, that appears as sent from x@gapps on behalf of y@gmail but based on the assumption that we want to keep gmail private only when we're not sending from it I think that's fine.
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You're right - for some situations this is a potential solution. Unfortunately just not for mine.
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Inappropriate?I would love to have the ability to sync between two or more gmail accounts. I have a gmail account (personal stuff) and a google apps gmail account for corporate email.
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Any update on this? If I remember correctly, there was supposed to be a release of this feature "soon" but that was a while ago.
I’m doubting
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Inappropriate?Hey everybody,
Soon was probably too soon.... Might take a while before we make this possible. Other priorities and stuff.
Sorry.
I’m bummed
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Inappropriate?"Me too!" This is an important feature I've been waiting on for quite some time.
I’m searching for other solutions.
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Inappropriate?Any news on this? how long is "a while"? it would be great if you finally do it!
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Inappropriate?I'd really like to use this, as I have multiple domains that use Google Apps, so syncing contacts between them makes my life much better. :-)
I’m excited about contacts nirvana
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Inappropriate?I also have multiple Google Apps domains. Syncing contacts between is a feature I would pay for!
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Inappropriate?Same here...if soocial can offer a reliable sync with multiple gmail accounts it will be a standard application for me
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?I would love to see this feature - i cant belive there is not already something that will let me share an address book with my wife's account!
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Inappropriate?I'm one more person who thinks this would be very helpful!
I have two Google Apps accounts and would love to be able to push all changes on my Mac and mobile to both accounts. The filtering option would be a nice-to-have, but far from necessary.
I’m almost impatient
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Inappropriate?If you want to sync multiple Gmail / Google Calendar, you can use Memotoo.com, now it's possible !2 Comments Add a comment
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Thanks, for editing that Thomas. Now everybody try out Memotoo.com and see if it fits your needs. ;-)
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I checked out Memotoo. The "free" account only allows 40 contacts to be synced? Who in the world only knows 40 people? The free account, at least for me, is useless.
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Inappropriate?I posted this one several months ago. Can we get a timeframe for when you're going to turn this on?
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?It is a capacity issue Tony. We'd need to start using more servers to be able to do this. It is hard to say when we will have enough resources to be able to do this. But as far as we are concerned, the sooner the better.
I’m excited too!
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OK. Fair enough. I guess it's better to not add a feature rather than degrade service for everyone.
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Inappropriate?Any chance the system could maintain the current limit of 3 connections to webmail services while letting us choose which 3? For instance, currently I can connect to Yahoo, Gmail, & Hotmail. I would like to connect to Yahoo, Gmail & Gmail instead. My Hotmail isn't as important to me as the second Gmail account.
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Inappropriate?Can't wait for you guys to add this as well. I really want to be able to sync my work (g-apps for biz) and personal (gmail) contacts without having to keep doing it manually! Especially now that I have google voice!
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Inappropriate?this is likely teh sort of service i'd pay for - not a lot, but pay none the less. perhaps $1 per connection per month or something. so syncing 2 google accts, 1 windows live woudl be $3 - quite reasonable!
I’m unsure
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Thanks for your feedback robert 11111! We are hoping to release a premium account within a few months.
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I was considering paying for Plaxo's service if it would sync across my multiple gmail accounts & Outlook. Plaxo won't work, so I'd consider putting that money on a Soocial premium account if it met my multiple account sync needs. Also, I saw a comment about syncing every 10 minutes. I can see how that would put a high load on your servers (and Google's). I'd be happy with syncing at a much lower frequency, with an on-demand option if I know I've made changes I want propagated.
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Inappropriate?I am *very* interested in this feature. I agree with steb bins42 that if the issue is scalability then when someone has 2 gmail accounts just only sync every 20 minutes instead of every 10 minutes -- this should leave the same load... (Or every 60 minutes and have 1/3 the load!)
For me a daily automatic sync combined with the option to initiate a sync manually would fulfill my needs and result in dramatically less load on servers...
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?What about allowing to synchronize contacts with multiple Gmail accounts? For example if I have a personal Gmail account as well as a professional Google Apps account?
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Sync with multiple Gmail / Google Apps accounts.
I’m confident
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