Calendar

Creating New Calendars

Using Thunderbird it's possible to have multiple calendars. You can connect to your online calendars during email account setup or create new calendars later.

Changing calendar preferences

This article describes how to change the preferences (name, color, location etc.) of a single calendar.

Adding a holiday calendar

Learn how to add a list of holidays to your calendar in Thunderbird.

Lightning User Interface

This article describes the Lightning user interface. (Lightning is a popular calendar add-on for Thunderbird.)

Configuring Lightning

This article describes how to configure the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird.

Creating a new event or task

This article describes how to create a new event or task in the Lightning calendar add-on for Thunderbird.

Exporting and sharing a calendar

This article describes how to export and share a calendar from the Lightning calendar add-on for Thunderbird.

Changing the Date or Time of an Event

This article describes how to change the date or time of an event.

Inviting Other People to Events

If you need to set up a meeting, and keep track of who's attending and who is not, Lightning can do this as well as allow you to send invitations to people who do not have Thunderbird/Lightning, including Microsoft Outlook users!

Creating a recurring event

This article describes how to create a recurring event in the Lightning calendar add-on for Thunderbird.

Lightning Articles

Enable email invitations for CalDAV servers configured to do serverside scheduling

How to configure Thunderbird/Lightning to send email invitations even if you're subscribed to a CalDAV calendar supporting serverside scheduling.

Calendar updates issues with Thunderbird

Common calendar update issues for Thunderbird with the Lightning add-on and recommendations to deal with them.