Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks.
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Is Thunderbird/Sunbird the only one that can read and write .ics files on network folder?
I have an ics calendar file that is store on a network folder.
Thunderbird/Sunbird can read and write entries very well.
Now i am looking for an alternative.
It seem to be that Thinderbird (with Lighning) or Sunbird, is the only one that can write…

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Can Lightning calendars be created with thunderbird.cfg?
We have set up a calDav server and are planning deployment within our enterprise but are having trouble creating the calDav calendars in Thunderbird with Thunderbird.cfg, default.js, all.js or user.js. Is there a method of automating the creation of…

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Write Thunderbird addon to handle Calendar notifications
Following my previous question about Thunderbird Calendar popups, I am still looking for a way to display Calendar notifications as "native" Windows 10 system notifications.
Before I invest any time in learning how to write a Thunderbird addon, is…

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Show meeting.ics invitation attributes in Mozilla Thunderbird
In Mozilla Thunderbird when I receive an invitation message from MS Outlook I get a meeting.ics file as an attachment. It also create an event in built-in calendar (Lightning). The meeting.ics file can contain some attributes which are not available…

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Thunderbird: How to access the calendar?
I'm planning to develop a tool (running on the Windows PC) which allows comparing and merging calendar events between different calendars. My mobile device and my Lightning calendar should be supported.
The idea is to write an App for my mobile…

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How to sync Intranet thunderbird light calender
I am using thunderbird with Lighting calendar.Is there any way to sync thundirbird calendar with local network ?

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How can I launch the Lightning-"create Event"-Dialog with given Date and Time
I would like to open the thunderbrid-lightning-create event dialog with a given date and time.
Currently I have:
window.open("chrome://calendar/content/calendar-event-dialog.xul",
"xulschoolhello-some-window",
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how to delete alarm in lightning (in js)
I am banging my head looking at the code for ... quite some time.
I have a lightning event, created from ics (including an alarm).
I want to delete the alarm after something has occurred. I found calItemBase has mAlarms. But how to delete a single…

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how to let thunderbird calender event trigger a shell script?
I need to update the messenger's status when there is a calender event is happening in Thunderbird. Is it possible to hook the existing alarm?

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Synchronizing Thunderbird artefacts via IMAP?
I want to write a Thunderbird Plugin, that allows me to add information (self-defined, or extending others e.g. tasks, dependencies etc.) and organize them. Is it possible to exchange and thereby synchronize such information automatically via IMAP?…

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Lightning 2.6.4 is unavailable in Thunderbird 24.3
I have uninstalled and re-installed lightning 2.6.4 - and the options are there but are grayed out. It is not disabled. I have a combination of local and google calendars. Anyone know what is going on? I googled this and could not find anything,…

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