This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

How/why can Google pick up address information entered only in my Thunderbird client?

  • 3 replies
  • 2 have this problem
  • 6 views
  • Last reply by Matt

more options

I notice that when I enter a new email contact in Thunderbird, Google has synched it by the next day to my Android device contacts list. I'd expect this to happen if I were managing my email on the Gmail web site, but am not too enthused about Google rummaging around in my Thunderbird client software. Is this a default setting, and can it be changed?

I notice that when I enter a new email contact in Thunderbird, Google has synched it by the next day to my Android device contacts list. I'd expect this to happen if I were managing my email on the Gmail web site, but am not too enthused about Google rummaging around in my Thunderbird client software. Is this a default setting, and can it be changed?

All Replies (3)

more options

Are you sending your mail using a Google SMTP server. I think you are. That is how they get to add the sent mail to your sent folder on their wen site. Mail in the sent folder has all the relevant email addresses.

So I think your making a conspiracy involving Thunderbird out of something Google does with data you provide them.

Alternatively if you have installed one of the Google contact Sync add-ons then of course Thunderbird will be syncing contact to Google

more options

You are correct about the server. As I usually send a message to new contacts (that generally being the reason for entering them), that explains how the information is picked up.

Thanks for the explanation.

(Btw, I was not at all positing a 'conspiracy,' of any kind -- what made you think that?)

more options

I was trying to be funny. Sorry.