Summary

Provide a synchronized copy of gmail contacts to thunderbird using a local ldap server

Install

Just unzip somewhere

Linux: gmail2ldap$ chmod u+x gmail2ldap.sh

Configure

Go to the 'config' dir and rename accounts-sample.xml to accounts.xml.

Edit accounts.xml with your own email/password.

Run

Windows:

Linux:

gmail2ldap$ gmail2ldap.sh

Synchronize

Check your system tray, right click on icon...

Thunderbird

How to configure Thunderbird Address Book

Use this parameters:

gmail2ldap dn value is: dc=gmail2ldap,dc=googlecode,dc=com