Hey guys...Just wondering if Google Sync will work with our WP7 devices. I know it worked for Windows Mobile. Ideas?
Thanks.
Pulling two bits of information together, WP7 supports Exchange Activesync, and Google's support for Exchange Activesync is published here:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139652
...which amounts to a "yes", although from memory I thought that they only supported Calendar sync for WP7. Still, I could have remembered wrong or they may have improved things... or I might be right. (I only read it last week.)
You emails will of course sync via the standard mail protocols (I assume).
I mainly concerned with getting all my Google contacts.
If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
I have another question. Does Outlook Connector support for sync contact pictures to the Hotmail account? Because when I try to sync my Outlook 2010 contacts with Hotmail (for WP7 Exchange Activesync), then contact photos are not synchronized
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If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
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Not tasks. There is no concept of "tasks" in WP7.
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If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
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Can you please explain?
Hello, I have read the above entries, but am still stuck. I have entered my google mail details by selecting the google account option, then have select contacts in the settings, but it still wont sync my contacts, what am I doing wrong?
I want to sync tasks with Google. I am unable to find that option.. Please help...Thank you
tasks in general are not supported natively. you have to find an application to do it. i have seen an article a few days back on it, but i can't seem to dig it up.
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If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
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there is no need to set it up like that. simply setup google as google and just whatever you choose will be synced. you can check several option after setup when you tap on that account.
harsaphes said:
I mainly concerned with getting all my Google contacts.
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google sync does work
just set up your gmail as another account and your contacts will autosync
Hi everyone, I am coming from an Android phone, and one of the things that I absolutely LOVED was that I could add a contact right from my phone, and it will be synched to my Gmail account where I could make edits, modifications, add pictures, etc from my desktop.
I just added a few numbers and synched the phone, but noticed they're not showing up on my desktop interface. Is their anyway I could make them sync?
so presumably you set up your phone with a windows live account, correct? if yes, download outlook hotmail connecter and set up your outlook to sync with your windows live account. from there, presto, all contacts, emails, and calendars will be available for you over your desktop. any changes you make on your desktop/phone goes to your live account, and becomes available to anything that connects to it as well.
Doesn't gmail support activesync now? I think all he has to do is set up another account on his WP7 and point it at m.google.com.
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Doesn't gmail support activesync now?
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you'r using ANDROID
since i have been using the google services for a while now, it is something that is important to me before i decide about this phone ... i know it is able to sync the basic calandar and of course email. but what about contacts? ... and in the calendar can you have it sync multiple cals using the m.google.com/sync ?
Yes.
I have two google accounts set up on mine, both calanders are on the phone, all contacts are on the phone and it all works perfect!
I was the same way with Google services. They synced up with my HD7 perfectly!
Hotmail Syncs up great as well. Gmail is great. Live Sync is great. Exchange is great. Tasks would be nice
Why would a "consumer" not want to have their emails always available, contacts are never lost and a single email entry for account settings will get you all set up?
Works perfectly with GoogleMail
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Good to know on contacts! And on the calendar. My family all uses google cal. And then we share them with each other to keep up. So I needed to make sure on then multi cal support
also works perfectly with google apps and a custom domain (or two) setup as exchange servers
my main need is to have multiple calendars synced to it ... or just the ones that are linked to my email address and that are shared with me ...
right now you only get the default calendar for each synced account
Ya good to know it syncs Gmail contacts with no problem.. now I can skip setting up my dead, dormant Hotmail ID altogether.. coz last time I did that on Windows 6.5 it synced up all my contacts from dead hotmail account.. I mean each and every email address to every person I ever sent an email to started showing up on my contact list as a separate contact..
is there any way to get it to sync more than only your main google calendar? i dont mind combining them but would prefer not to
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Ya good to know it syncs Gmail contacts with no problem.. now I can skip setting up my dead, dormant Hotmail ID altogether.. coz last time I did that on Windows 6.5 it synced up all my contacts from dead hotmail account.. I mean each and every email address to every person I ever sent an email to started showing up on my contact list as a separate contact..
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Funny thing is I just created a dummy Live Account to put it on my WP7.. and than after creating my dummy Live ID account on computer I used their 'import contacts from Gmail to Live ID Account' feature.. my gmail has only like 215 contacts with phone numbers and addresses and things like that.. when I tried to import them to Live ID... my Live ID import each and every email on my gmail account as a separate contact.. every mail ID i received an email from, every mail ID i ever sent an email to.. it all was imported as a 'Contact' on my live ID account.. 1000 contacts it showed and now I had contacts like '[email protected]' as a stand alone contact.. B*ull... that's why I never use anything from Microsoft other than Windows operating system and the phone;. .. each and every service of their sucks.. they suck at internet and everything to do with internet... at desktop they are good...
BTW I had to manually delete all those contacts from my dummy Live ID .. 25 contacts at a time.. (they wont show more than 25 per page) .. 3 clicks per 25 contacts... and a 1000 contact to delete .. before I could put it this dummy Live ID account on my WP7 to access Zune without F*cking up my contacts on my phone...
I have no email coming on this dummy account, zero contacts and nothing to do with its calendar.. i give up on Outlook too.. I am better off using Gmail and my phone as outlook.. syncing important contacts and appointments to gmail for backup.. Microsoft Outlook is dead.
Purple11 said:
Ya good to know it syncs Gmail contacts with no problem.. now I can skip setting up my dead, dormant Hotmail ID altogether.. coz last time I did that on Windows 6.5 it synced up all my contacts from dead hotmail account.. I mean each and every email address to every person I ever sent an email to started showing up on my contact list as a separate contact..
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I made sure before importing my current contacts that I deleted all contacts and emails from hotmail. I've had this happen before.
Purple11 said:
Funny thing is I just created a dummy Live Account to put it on my WP7.. and than after creating my dummy Live ID account on computer I used their 'import contacts from Gmail to Live ID Account' feature.. my gmail has only like 215 contacts with phone numbers and addresses and things like that.. when I tried to import them to Live ID... my Live ID import each and every email on my gmail account as a separate contact.. every mail ID i received an email from, every mail ID i ever sent an email to.. it all was imported as a 'Contact' on my live ID account.. 1000 contacts it showed and now I had contacts like '[email protected]' as a stand alone contact.. B*ull... that's why I never use anything from Microsoft other than Windows operating system and the phone;. .. each and every service of their sucks.. they suck at internet and everything to do with internet... at desktop they are good...
BTW I had to manually delete all those contacts from my dummy Live ID .. 25 contacts at a time.. (they wont show more than 25 per page) .. 3 clicks per 25 contacts... and a 1000 contact to delete .. before I could put it this dummy Live ID account on my WP7 to access Zune without F*cking up my contacts on my phone...
I have no email coming on this dummy account, zero contacts and nothing to do with its calendar.. i give up on Outlook too.. I am better off using Gmail and my phone as outlook.. syncing important contacts and appointments to gmail for backup.. Microsoft Outlook is dead.
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Well aren't you just retarded then? When setting up gmail on your phone, it asks if you want to sync contacts and calenders. There was no reason to import them to hotmail.
Purple11 said:
Funny thing is I just created a dummy Live Account to put it on my WP7.. and than after creating my dummy Live ID account on computer I used their 'import contacts from Gmail to Live ID Account' feature.. my gmail has only like 215 contacts with phone numbers and addresses and things like that.. when I tried to import them to Live ID... my Live ID import each and every email on my gmail account as a separate contact.. every mail ID i received an email from, every mail ID i ever sent an email to.. it all was imported as a 'Contact' on my live ID account.. 1000 contacts it showed and now I had contacts like '[email protected]' as a stand alone contact.. B*ull... that's why I never use anything from Microsoft other than Windows operating system and the phone;. .. each and every service of their sucks.. they suck at internet and everything to do with internet... at desktop they are good...
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Are you sure there are not 1000 contacts on your gmail? For example, 'Other Contacts'. I have cleaned up my gmail so that things like unsubscribe are not in my contacts list (any tab of the contacts list). When I did the import, it was perfect.
yeah on my gmail i have a list built just for the contacts i keep ... the other ones that get auto added later i purge on a regular basis ..
what i was wanting to do with the calendars though would not work the way i wanted it to ... so instead of being able to display the shared calendars that i had on my main account i had to log into each of them on the phone and tell it to sync just the calendar with my phone to get the same end results....
How do you prevent it from syncing ALL Google contacts?
My parents just got the Focus, and they use Gmail. I set their email and contacts up, but it pulls in every person they ever emailed.
Is there a way to just sync the contacts that have phone numbers?
F-o-p-p-a said:
How do you prevent it from syncing ALL Google contacts?
My parents just got the Focus, and they use Gmail. I set their email and contacts up, but it pulls in every person they ever emailed.
Is there a way to just sync the contacts that have phone numbers?
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you can build a custom list in the Gmail site and then resync it so that it will only import the ones you want
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It only semi syncs with Google calendar from what I see, I just set a biweekly repeating event on the web and on my Optimus it appears weekly. Not the best sync ever. My Live calendar synced the biweekly properly however.
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you can build a custom list in the Gmail site and then resync it so that it will only import the ones you want
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What do you mean exactly?
They have several groups already in Gmail Contacts, and it still pulls in ever single person with an email address. Even the ones who aren't in their created groups.
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It only semi syncs with Google calendar from what I see, I just set a biweekly repeating event on the web and on my Optimus it appears weekly. Not the best sync ever. My Live calendar synced the biweekly properly however.
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mine imports all my events no problem at all ...
the only thing i had to do was to get one of the public cal's to show up by adding its events into my main cal.
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What do you mean exactly?
They have several groups already in Gmail Contacts, and it still pulls in ever single person with an email address. Even the ones who aren't in their created groups.
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there is also a setting in gmail someplace that lets you disable the way it adds every email address to the address book.... i have also disabled that ...
I don't have a Windows phone, yet, but I am trying to prepere my contact lists for my new phone.
This is how I started:
I have an private exchange account with about 200 contacts.
I have made my exchange account a Windows Live, because i use mye exchange account with MSN Messenger (about 80 of 200 contacts)
In Windows Live, I have connected Facebook and Linkedin to sync contacts from this services.
How will this exampel contact look on Windows Phone ?
Exchange: Don Johnsen, [email protected], company phone: 1122334455
Windows Live: Don Johnsen, [email protected]
Facebook: Don Johnsen, [email protected], privat phone: 5544332211, Works for Company1, Private adresse: Privatelane 123
Linkedin: Don Johnsen, [email protected], Works for Company1, Company1 adresse, Company fax nr: 55555555
How will the calender look on Windows Phone ?
Will I get facebook events in the calender ?
You don't get Facebook events in the calendar by default. I don't know if there's a way to get them to show there.
Your LinkedIn contact info will show as Live. You can link multiple sources to one contact card, it works fairly well.
Thanks.
Someone with an example of a contactcard with multiple contact info ?
What profile pictures will it use, or can I change from facebook, Linkedin or MSN ?
Will I be able to choose mailadress to send to ?
By default it uses the picture from Facebook, but you can change that and use a photo from a different contact source or from your phone.
Yes, you can choose email addresses.
It's difficult to show a contact card because there's no way to make a screenshot. There are pictures on the internet, a quick Google search will help you.
basically what happens is that you can "link" contact cards together, so that way you can see all the different information from the different places in 1 card. the disadvantage is that you will get double ups (so if you had the same email address for the person across 3 places, you'd see it 3 times in their contact card with it saying where each came from).
as for editting details, i'm not sure but from what i'm aware, you edit for 1 type. so for example, you had 1 contact with 3 different locations for data (your exchange, windows live, facebook), you cannot edit facebook of course, so what would happen is you would be given the option to edit which one you want (your exchange or windows live). so if you wanted the data to sync, you would have to edit twice, one for your windows live and one for your exchange. somewhat sucks, but that's the way it works. there might be third party applications (desktop) that can sync exchange with windows live regularly so you don't have to worry, but i'm not familiar enough with it.
I am having an issue with syncing new contacts. I connected LinkedIn to my Windows Live account. It updated some of my contacts that I already had and added others that were only in LinkedIn and not in the Live account.
They are showing up correctly in my Live account but the new contacts and updated info that LinkedIn merged are not syncing/showing on my phone.
Any ideas how to fix this?
I have several question regarding contacts, cause it seems little bit chaotic.
1. I set up my Live account, connected it with my gmail, facebook, linked in etc. and then syncd with phone - zero contacts in my phone. SO I realized, that you can sync live with gmail, but it will not import phone contacts... and if you set gmail account on your phone (not in live) it will download the contacts from the account, but will not sync them with live. It sucks. You can import contacts in live from gmail directly in browser (there is an import gmail option). Buit anyway, it sucks, because I thought, that my live account will be able to sync different contacts so they will be updated all the time - I will change something in gmail and it will be updated in WP7, I will change WP7 and it will sync with gmail. NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. SAD.
2. LinkedIn - my LinkedIn contacts are showing OK in Live.com, with pictures etc. But, they are not showing with pictures on the phone and they are not even showing all information from linkedin. Is there a way how to change it (I want pictures from these contacts to some of my phone conracts after i link them?
3. Facebook - I thought, that when I connect facebook in live.com, that it will be connected automatically in the phone as well. It isnt. It does show updates in people hub, but it will not show contacts in contact list, if you want them to show, again, you will have to add facebook account to your phone. BUt these will not be synced with your live, so when you link facebook contact with linked in conbtact and gmail contact and then you hard reset the phone and sync it with live, you will not have ONE contact, you will have three different unlinked contacts, becuase link is done just in phone. WHICH SUCKS.
4. Oh, and I just realized, that when I imported my contacts from gmail to live and then synced them to WP7, the contacts on my phone do not show phone numbers! My live contacts show the phone numbers, but they are not synced to the phone! WTF? Aarrrgh... So I will have to sync my gmail contacts with numbers with my phone as a separate account to be able to call those contacts...
Any advices how to avoiud these problems, or am i wrong?
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I have several question regarding contacts, cause it seems little bit chaotic.
1. I set up my Live account, connected it with my gmail, facebook, linked in etc. and then syncd with phone - zero contacts in my phone. SO I realized, that you can sync live with gmail, but it will not import phone contacts... and if you set gmail account on your phone (not in live) it will download the contacts from the account, but will not sync them with live. It sucks. You can import contacts in live from gmail directly in browser (there is an import gmail option). Buit anyway, it sucks, because I thought, that my live account will be able to sync different contacts so they will be updated all the time - I will change something in gmail and it will be updated in WP7, I will change WP7 and it will sync with gmail. NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. SAD.
2. LinkedIn - my LinkedIn contacts are showing OK in Live.com, with pictures etc. But, they are not showing with pictures on the phone and they are not even showing all information from linkedin. Is there a way how to change it (I want pictures from these contacts to some of my phone conracts after i link them?
3. Facebook - I thought, that when I connect facebook in live.com, that it will be connected automatically in the phone as well. It isnt. It does show updates in people hub, but it will not show contacts in contact list, if you want them to show, again, you will have to add facebook account to your phone. BUt these will not be synced with your live, so when you link facebook contact with linked in conbtact and gmail contact and then you hard reset the phone and sync it with live, you will not have ONE contact, you will have three different unlinked contacts, becuase link is done just in phone. WHICH SUCKS.
Any advices how to avoiud these problems, or am i wrong?
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My problem is the same as your number 2 problem. If anyone knows how to sync all the data it would be greatly appreciated.
I tried to google it and realized, that I am not the only one in the world with the same problem. There are lot of people with that problem and it seems, that it may appear during time, first everything is synced right from live, and then it stops working, phone numbers and pictures dissapear etc. Also, there is no answer to that problem from MS.
So, I tried following:
1. Deleted all my contacts from live
2. Diconected all the social networks in live.
3. Synced my phone with live, so there were no contacts on my phone as well
4. Deleted all account on my phone (facebook)
5. Restarted the phone
5. Imported contacts from gmail to live again
6. Connected live with facebook and linkedin again
7. Synced my phone with live
At first, it seemed to work, my gmail contacts appeared with numbers again.
There were no pictures at gmail contatcs that should have them (even that during my first sync, they were imported)
And the worst thing is, that when I started syncing my liveID to my phone it went to same weird loop. I have 350 contacts in live, but the syncing doesnt seem to stop, right now it says it is syncing contact 10000 (!) and continues to sync (also reported by many other users on MS answers forum).
So, the whole thing seems to be totally screwed.
Any advices?
I wonder if a hard reset then resyncing with my Live account would work. I'm not sure if since I added the LinkedIn relationship after the initial transfer that is the problem.
So, I hardreseted and the problem remains. It is probably caused by some incompatible data from gmail (i gues it could be HTC Sense notes about my facebook links on android). Most bizzare thing is, that it doesnt happen when you sync the same contacts directly with gmail. Hotmail is definitelly ****ed up and nobody at support is trying to solve this. There is couple of really desperate guys at MS forums.
chumaj001 said:
I have several question regarding contacts, cause it seems little bit chaotic.
1. I set up my Live account, connected it with my gmail, facebook, linked in etc. and then syncd with phone - zero contacts in my phone. SO I realized, that you can sync live with gmail, but it will not import phone contacts... and if you set gmail account on your phone (not in live) it will download the contacts from the account, but will not sync them with live. It sucks. You can import contacts in live from gmail directly in browser (there is an import gmail option). Buit anyway, it sucks, because I thought, that my live account will be able to sync different contacts so they will be updated all the time - I will change something in gmail and it will be updated in WP7, I will change WP7 and it will sync with gmail. NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. SAD.
2. LinkedIn - my LinkedIn contacts are showing OK in Live.com, with pictures etc. But, they are not showing with pictures on the phone and they are not even showing all information from linkedin. Is there a way how to change it (I want pictures from these contacts to some of my phone conracts after i link them?
3. Facebook - I thought, that when I connect facebook in live.com, that it will be connected automatically in the phone as well. It isnt. It does show updates in people hub, but it will not show contacts in contact list, if you want them to show, again, you will have to add facebook account to your phone. BUt these will not be synced with your live, so when you link facebook contact with linked in conbtact and gmail contact and then you hard reset the phone and sync it with live, you will not have ONE contact, you will have three different unlinked contacts, becuase link is done just in phone. WHICH SUCKS.
4. Oh, and I just realized, that when I imported my contacts from gmail to live and then synced them to WP7, the contacts on my phone do not show phone numbers! My live contacts show the phone numbers, but they are not synced to the phone! WTF? Aarrrgh... So I will have to sync my gmail contacts with numbers with my phone as a separate account to be able to call those contacts...
Any advices how to avoid these problems, or am i wrong?
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All I did was to setup my Contacts in Windows Live uploading them from Outlook in the first place. Then I cleaned them up and finally I added my Facebook account.
The phone automatically matched more then half of my contacts and linked their accounts. I needed to manually link some of them because of accents in their names, but that was not a problem.
i think i may hit some these problem when i install windows phone 7 (currently running android). im looking at sorting out my calenders and contacts and need some advice. here is my setup:
i have 7 email accounts i want to sync with my phone:
2x windows live (1 main one and 1 work one)
2x google mail (1 main one and 2 work ones)
1x yahoo 1
1x ISP (virgin media)
1x work
currently i use outlook 2010 to send/recieve mail from all of them, and manage my contacts that i use. the contacts are managed as follows:
main gmail: phonebook contacts (i.e. everyone i have a phone number for)
work gmail: no contacts
yahoo: online addressbook with outdated contacts (not managed through outlook)
ISP: no contacts
work: no contacts
work windows live: work contacts (email only)
main windows live: a mix of everything, some outdated contacts
on top of this, my facebook and linked in accounts are linked to my main windows live account.
for calenders, i currently run 2, 1 from outlook, and 1 from windows live. the outlook calender is automatically synced with the main gmail calender through the google calender sync app on the pc.
my questions are:
1. what is the best account to have the 'phonebook' contacts in
2. does windows phone 7 merge all addressbooks into 1 big address book
3. if i wanted to kep my contacts/calenders synced between all my email accounts and my wp7 device, how could i go about this?
4. if i had the same address book in each mail account, would i end up with multiple contacts/multiple details in my address book on my phone?
the reason i have so many email addresses is a do freelance work on the side of my studying, and i have a seperate email account for each client i do work for. i also use things like yahoo groups and the google services.
i suppose an additional question would be:
5. can i merge all the email account into 1 account, and seperate the emails into groups (this would need to be done on the pc and on the phone). this would probably cut down my email accounts 4!
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1) You can use your personal Windows Live account as the default. It works great for having your main contacts (phonebook) and calendar synced.
2) No, you get one separate Tile for each account so you can pin it to the start screen and see the number of unread emails per account.
3) I would try to cut them down to two at the most. One for Windows Live and one for Gmail. Having too many would be a PITA and bothersome to keep tabs on.
4) The phone will automatically match contacts and their details from different account. If you find that some are not linked, you can always do it manually. This feature works great, either automatically or manual adding.
5) You can configure you main Windows Live account to retrieve mails from other account and have them separated by folders. You can even send mail using those accounts.
You can also have your two WL account merged and have one Gmail account retrieve mail from the other and keep. This way, you will end up with just two separate account, one for WL and one for Gmail.
Hope this helps.
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1) You can use your personal Windows Live account as the default. It works great for having your main contacts (phonebook) and calendar synced.
2) No, you get one separate Tile for each account so you can pin it to the start screen and see the number of unread emails per account.
3) I would try to cut them down to two at the most. One for Windows Live and one for Gmail. Having too many would be a PITA and bothersome to keep tabs on.
4) The phone will automatically match contacts and their details from different account. If you find that some are not linked, you can always do it manually. This feature works great, either automatically or manual adding.
5) You can configure you main Windows Live account to retrieve mails from other account and have them separated by folders. You can even send mail using those accounts.
You can also have your two WL account merged and have one Gmail account retrieve mail from the other and keep. This way, you will end up with just two separate account, one for WL and one for Gmail.
Hope this helps.
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i think it does. i suppose one of my other concerns is that i dont want all of my windows live contacts in my phonebook, as they are email only. is there a way of only listing contacts with phone numbers? i think what i am going to do it set up mail forwarding, and then have the mail sorted into folders in my windows live account. i have aquired a lot of contacts over the years and im sure i dont need/use about 75% of them any more!