Sync emc contacts with icloud contacts?

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Hi,

Is it possible to sync the contacts (in Windows EMC) with my cloud contacts?

Thanks for any info.

B R

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Is it possible to sync the contacts (in Windows EMC) with my cloud contacts?

Normally when you add an iCloud account into eM Client, your iCloud contacts “will automatically appear in eM Client Contacts” section via the tab at the bottom left.

If they haven’t, you might need to remove and readd your iCloud account again via the automatic account wizard via “Menu / Accounts”

Note: If you do remove and readd your account make a manual backup first via “Menu / Backup” incase you need to restore for any reason.

If they are Local folder contacts and you want to sync them with your iCloud contacts, just go to eM Client Contacts and select all your local folder contacts and then “copy and paste them” into your iCloud contacts.

Or if they are Local folder contacts, and you no longer want them in local contacts “and only in iCloud contacts”, then just select all and “drag / move them” to your iCloud contacts.

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I have the same problem - except it’s a potential problem b/c not an EMC user, yet. I’m not sure what you mean by iCloud account. I do NOT have an iCloud MAIL account, and don’t particularly want one. I do have an iPhone, and a PC.

I have two domains, each of which has multiple email addresses, I also have a gmail acct. I have been using Outlook to access all these as IMAP accounts. I also access them with the Mail app on my phone, also with IMAP accts. I used to sync the Outlook and iOS contacts using iTunes, but Apple took that ability away some time ago. Since then my contacts have gotten horribly out of sync. Microsoft has also been stripping capabilities from Outlook, over the years. I’d like to find a new client, so looking at EMC.

I want to have ONE set of contacts that works on both my phone and my computer, used for emails, telephone calls, texts, even holding physical addresses for USPS mailings! My iOS contacts are on iCloud. In theory they can be synced with Outlook but I have not actually been able to get this working. Will it work in EM Client. Documentation and forums are super unclear.

Thanks for any help.

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If you want to have one set of contacts that works with your iphone and computer then you just need to make sure all your devices “have the same cloud (server based) mail contacts”. So whatever mail account you add into eM Client will then have access to those same contacts.

Also once you add your account or accounts into eM Client for desktop, “you can then move / drag the contacts in whatever other account you like” if you want them all in a specific cloud mail account. That will then sync those contacts to all your other devices linked to the same cloud mail account.

My iOS contacts are on iCloud. In theory they can be synced with Outlook but I have not actually been able to get this working.

Normally to sync iCloud Contacts with a desktop mail client, you add in the same iCloud account as your iPhone which then has access to the same contacts.

Otherwise you normally have to export your iCloud Contacts to a eg: .vCard file and then import those into eM Client contacts into whatever other Outlook, Gmail or Domain Cloud account. You will then have the same contacts globally.

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Thanks, but I still don’t understand what you mean by an “iCloud” account. Do you mean an iCloud MAIL account (like an email address [email protected])? I don’t have one of those - never saw why I needed another email address. But if it will help with setup, I guess I could. My domain-based emails do NOT have their own contact databases, and I do NOT share my contacts with Google, except to the extent they have “helpfully” stolen them.

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I still don’t understand what you mean by an “iCloud” account. Do you mean an iCloud MAIL account (like an email address [email protected])? I don’t have one of those - never saw why I needed another email address.

That’s correct an iCloud mail account which then includes your iCloud contacts. See the eM Client support page on doing that “where you need to also setup an app password” in your Apple acct to then use in the eM Client wizard

Otherwise as I said, if you don’t normally use an iCloud mail account then just export your iCloud contacts to a .vCard file and import it into a mail account you use in eM Client & other devices.