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Good Morning! I installed Thunderbird Beta version 85, which in its release says 'Address book: Added support for OAuth2 CardDAV providers'.

CardDAV is an open standard while Google's Contacts API is proprietary. I can't speak for Outlook, but since the issue is with Google's CardDAV API, it won't matter which other app you switch to. The problem will still be there if that app uses CardDAV.

• I installed Thunderbird Beta version 85, which in its release says 'Address book: Added support for OAuth2 CardDAV providers'. As Google also reported that it implemented CardDav, and then I understood that when setting up my google account on Thunderbird Beta version 85, it would also import my contacts, in addition to email messages.
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• Jun 05, 2018 CardDAV Browser gives you a quick and easy way to connect to a CardDAV server and view vCard details. Once installed the menu entry will appear under the 'Tools' menu. If you are using Firefox and the main menu bar is hidden then the entry can be found under 'Developer' in the 'burger stack' menu.

As Google also reported that it implemented CardDav, and then I understood that when setting up my google account on Thunderbird Beta version 85, it would also import my contacts, in addition to email messages.

Did I get it wrong, or do I have to execute a specific command / procedure for importing contacts from my google account?

I used the gContactSync extension before, but it stopped working after version 73.

Please ask for help, to import my contacts.Thank you very much,Luciano

• Setup Thunderbird: SOGo Address Book and Calendar synchronization with CardDAV and CalDAV
  • Calendar (CalDAV) with Thunderbird add-on 'Lightning'
  • Address Book (CardDAV) with SOGo Connector

SOGo Connector extention provides integration of Mozilla Thunderbird with the SOGo groupware solution. It does this by adding support for remote DAV address books and by adding features to be used along with the Lightning calendar extension.

Calendar (CalDAV) with Thunderbird add-on 'Lightning'

Install Thunderbird Lightning

Lightning is a calendar add-on for Thunderbird.

Launch Thunderbird, click menu: Tools -> Add-ons, Search 'Lightning' andinstall it.

Restart Thunderbird after installation.

Configure Remote Calendar

To use SOGo calendar, we need to get the link of SOGo Calendar first.

• Login to SOGo
• Click Calendar on top-right corner

• Choose the calendar you want to sync (Personal Calendar is the default one), click on 3 vertical dots, choose Link to this Calendar and copy CalDAV URL.

  Note: Some old SOGo releases might use 127.0.0.1:20000 as serveraddress in the CardDAV URL, you must replace them by the real serveraddress like https://<your_server_name_or_ip>/SOGo.

Launch Thunderbird to add SOGo calendar:

• Create a new calendar by click menu on Thunderbird main window: File -> New -> Calendar, and choose On the Network for SOGo calendar:

Thunderbird Carddav Contacts

• on the On the Network page, choose format CalDAV, and paste the link of SOGo calendar. for example, https://<host>/SOGo/dav/<userName>/Calendar/personal/

• Type a preferred name for this calendar, then click Continue to finish the setup.

Thunderbird Carddav Setup

Address Book (CardDAV) with SOGo Connector

Download and install SOGo Connector

• Download the SOGo connector from SOGo website: https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends
• Launch Thunderbird, go to Tools -> Add-ons

Click the gear icon and choose Install Add-on From File

Select the downloaded SOGo Connector xpi file to install it, then restart Thunderbird.

Thunderbird Cardbook

Configure Thunderbird

To use SOGo address book, we need to get the link of SOGo Address Book first.

• Login to SOGo
• Click Address Book on top-right corner

• Choose the address book you want to sync (Personal Address Book is the default one), click on 3 vertical dots, choose Link to this Address Book, and copy CardDAV URL.

  Note: Some old SOGo releases might use 127.0.0.1:20000 as serveraddress in the CardDAV URL, you must replace them by the real serveraddress like https://<your_server_name_or_ip>/SOGo.

Now launch Thunderbird:

• open its Address Book (on macOS, it's menu Windows -> Address Book)
• on Address Book window, click File -> New -> Remote Address Book

Configure the Address Book Properties:

• Name: SOGo Address Book name (you can use whatever name you like here)
• URL: insert link you got from SOGo above - like: https://<host>/SOGo/dav/<userName>/Contacts/personal/
• Optionally check Periodic sync

Thunderbird Lightning Calendar

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