How to Sync Thunderbird & Lighting
Mozilla Thunderbird, the open-source email client developed by the same team that created Firefox, lacks by default a calendaring or task management feature. Email client rivals such as Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes, feature built-in calendaring abilities. Thunderbird, like Firefox, is designed to be used in conjunction with plugins or add-ons so you can customize the application for particular usage. Lightning is a calendaring and schedule add-on for Thunderbird. As Lightning is developed as an extension to Thunderbird, once it is set up no further synchronization is needed as all tasks are performed from within the program.
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Instructions
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Download the Lightning add-on (see References).
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Open Thunderbird, then click "Tools," followed by "Add-ons." Click "Install," then browse to your web browser's default download directory. Select the "lightning" plugin you have just downloaded, then click "Install."
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Click "Restart Thunderbird" to complete the installation of Lightning. Once Thunderbird has reopened, you will have fully installed calendar functionality via Lightning.
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Click the Calendar button in Thunderbird to switch to Calendar mode. Click "File," then "New," then "Calendar" to set up a new calendar. If you want to synchronize to a remote calendar, click "From the Network" or if you want to create a new calendar, click "From My Computer." If you are synchronizing a remote calendar, you will need an address for the calendar and login details if required.
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Click "Finish" to finalize the installation and synchronization of a calendar using Lightning in Thunderbird.
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