The new calendar wizard will pop up.Ī window will open asking you to login to your gmail account. Re-open Thunderbird and select from the drop down menu New Message then Calendar. Close Thunderbird and re-open to complete the installation. Search for ‘Provider for Google Calendar’ and install. From inside Thunderbird head to the drop down menu (top right, 3 horizontal lines) and select Add-ons. Now to sync Lightning (Thunderbird) calendar with Google calendar.įirst off you need to install an add-in called Provider for Google Calendar. Gmail will fire an email off to your main email account for which you need to click the link to activate the share. Scroll down to Share with specific people and add your main gmail account. From this screen you will see a tab named Share this Calendar. To share your Google calendar head into each gmail account, click the cog (top right) -> Settings, select Calendars tab, then click your main calendar. The first step was to get all my google calendars shared with my main google gmail account. Google calendar works well on my android devices but I’m now constantly flicking between Thunderbird and Google calendar with lots of leeway for missing appointments. Here’s the thing (isn’t there always a thing), I’m now faced with managing multiple calendars. I’ve sent, received, accepted and modified appointment times with 100% success across several different calendar clients. Now I’m all good, this calendar works seamlessly with Outlook, Google and other calendars. Thunderbird is freeware, it’s maintained really well however it doesn’t come with a built in calendar, so off I head and download the Lightning calendar plugin. Bonus – I can read everything due to Thunderbirds clean and tidy interface. Thunderbird has taken a little getting used to after years of using Outlook, however, 6 months later I’m loving it and will never go back. This means I’m not constantly switching between Outlook and my browser to check emails. I now use Thunderbird to manage multiple email accounts. OfĬourse, my tablet and phone contacts are synced too.A few months ago I decided to stop using Outlook as my mail client, there were 2 reasons for this, firstly I don’t like the Outlook 2013 interface, seriously, even with my glasses on I’m squinting to read it on my 22” monitor and then there’s a limit of being able to add 6 email addresses – yes I have 8, and that doesn’t include the multiple pop3 accounts that converge to one gmail account and – the number is growing every month! I also use gcontact sync to sync my address book with GMail. You can also connect to Google Calendar with your tablet or smart Re: Re: Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird
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