# How to have a quasi-Global Address List using Nextcloud and Webmail

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**Created:** [September 28, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-have-a-quasi-global-address-list-using-nextcloud-and-webmail/15990 "2025-09-28T23:01:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![terrytokyo](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@terrytokyo](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/terrytokyo)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-have-a-quasi-global-address-list-using-nextcloud-and-webmail/15990/1 "2025-09-28T23:01:18Z")

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I dearly want to have a GAL and I am sure I can do that with Nextcloud Contacts, BUT I am really struggling. I have set up two MIAB accounts and logged into each of their Nextcloud control panels. I have used the Webmail interface on one to import a load of contacts and then make some groups for mailing lists that (very slowly) syncronice to the Nextcloud account of the mail account BUT, i cannot figure out how to share the Contacts List and the groups with other webmail users.

The doc talk about using Circles and Teams and so on, but I just cannot get the second account to see the shared contacts list using either webmail or Nextcloud for the second account.

Has anyone succeeded in making this work?

Cheers

Terry

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**Author:** ![stylnchris](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/stylnchris/32/2189_2.png) [@stylnchris](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/stylnchris)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-have-a-quasi-global-address-list-using-nextcloud-and-webmail/15990/2 "2025-10-02T16:45:52Z")

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A global address list isn’t part of the project’s scope and isn’t something that is supported by this project.

IF you can do it in nextcloud I recommend googling to that affect or posting on the nextcloud support forums.