Both the Thunderbird desktop email client and the Lightning calendar add-on have been recently updated. Using Lightning is not the only way of integrating Google Calendar in Thunderbird. In 2010 I reviewed the Thunderbird add-on Google Calendar Tab which integrates the service into Thunderbird by opening the Google Calendar web page in the email client. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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A Closer Look at the Lightning Calendar Add-On For Thunderbird
One of the main points of criticism in regards to the email client Thunderbird was the missing calendar. While it was possible to install an early version of Lightning in previous versions of the email program, it was not really on-pair with the calendar in Outlook or Google Calendar. With the release of Thunderbird 8 [...]
Use SyncKolab to synchronize your Thunderbird Data
If you happen to use an e-mail provider that’s offering an IMAP-server (or you are boosting your own (mail-)server), this might be for you, because chances are if you are using IMAP, you’re the “portable” type of user. As some of the more regular readers may know, I’m all into the whole ‘portable’ thing, and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add a Calendar to Thunderbird
A friend of mine is still using Outlook at home and I was wondering why he did not switch to a more secure email client such as Thunderbird. His response was that Thunderbird was missing a calendar and that this was a feature that he needed. I could not deny that there was no calendar in Thunderbird – until I found the Thunderbird extension Lightning. Lightning which is still in development adds calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks..) to Thunderbird.