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Lightning is a calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird email client and Mozilla SeaMonkey AIO Suite. It is based on Mozilla's Sunbird calendar and works for Windows, Mac and Linux86.

You can find more information about the Mozilla Calendar Project at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/

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How do I get Thunderbird to open an ICS attachment directly in Lightning's calendar?

I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1 with Lightning 1.1.1. Is there an easier way to import an ICS file attached to an email than saving it to disk, then in Calendar going to File --> Open? If I select "Open with Thunderbird" from the save dialog, it…
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Cannot dismiss certain reminders in lightning/thunderbird

I'm using Thunderbird's Lightning addon to manage my calendars. I've been running into an issue where certain calendar events simply refuse to be dismissed for several days. They usually end up going away after a while but it's been over a week…
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Sync a single Google Calendar with CalDav

At work we use Mozilla Thunderbird with Lightning plugin to manage our calendar, and I want to sync with my Google Calendar account. The problem is that in my Google Calendar account, I have 3 specific calendars, and I just want to sync one of…
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Hide tasks for some (subscribed) calendars in Thunderbird/Lightning

At work I subscribed all my colleagues' calendars to be able to see their appointments and free times for scheduling purposes. But every time I show one of these calendars, Lightning will also show all of that person's tasks in my task list. In some…
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Use Google Tasks in Thunderbird?

I'm using the GDataProvider along with Lightning to access my Google Calendar from Thunderbird. However I'd also like to have access to my Google Tasks as well. Does anybody know if this is possible at present? The GDataProvider wiki suggests that…
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Accept and Decline button missing in thunderbird when receiving an invitation

I'm using Thunderbird 12.0.1 with the following add-ons for the calendar: Lightning 1.4 Provider for Google calendar 0.9 I'm working with Ubuntu 12.04 When I receive an event invitation from Outlook or Gmail, the mail is correctly identified by…
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How do I export calendar events in Mozilla lightning

How do I export calendar events in Mozilla Lightning? I'm using Thunderbird 3.0.4. (Sorry for such a basic question, but clicking on "Help contents" takes me to http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/ , and searching the knowledge base for…
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Increase Calendar Refresh Interval Beyond Defaults in Thunderbird/Lightning

Thunderbird/Lightning offers 5 different time intervals for refreshing remote calendars, between "Every Minute" and "Every 60 Minutes". But, my work requires me to have over a dozen remote calendars, most of which won't change more often than once…
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Thunderbird: Automatically add calendar entry from incoming email?

In Outlook and Gmail it is customary that an incoming calendar invite will be put on the calendar automatically (in an unconfirmed state). Is there any way to get Thunderbird to do this as well? Currently, Thunderbird will only add an event to the…
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How can I link my Lightning (Thunderbird) and my Office365 calendars?

My organization has recently started using Office365. I hooked up to it for email, using IMAP and SMTP, no problem (except that it's slow). Now I want to have my Lightning calendar linked to it as well, i.e. to have automated synching both ways: I…
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How to search for tasks and events in Mozilla Lightning/Thunderbird?

I can't find this function nowhere yet reading this post from ssitter in Integrate Unifinder into Lightning as it is in Sunbird bug in Mozilla's Bugzilla it looks like it was already implemented 3 years ago.
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Mozilla Lightning: Linking emails with tasks

Is there a way to link a task to an email? Ie. I have a task that says "Finish processing the information in this long email and act upon" and I want to link it to said email. Is that possible?
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In Mozilla Thunderbird, how to attach an event to an email?

In Mozilla Thunderbird, how to attach an event to an email? Basically, I need to do the opposite of what's described here: I need to create an event in Lightning, and then attach it to an email in Thunderbird. Is that possible?
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Thunderbird/Lightning - How to "accept" an outlook invite and have it added to my google calendar?

Thunderbird/Lightning - How to "accept" an outlook invite and have it added to my google calendar? Currently, when I "accept" outlook originated events they are added to my "work" cal by default and not sure how to sync this or have this sync'ed to…
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Can't set calendar reminder in Thunderbird

I am using the Provider for Google Calendar add on to add my Google calendars into the Lightning calendar add on for Thunderbird. I am able to setup reminders for calendar events that I create, but if someone invites me to an event I am not able to…
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