Sync Lightning Tasks With an iPhone

Lightning is a calendar include-on for the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail consumer. If you use Lightning to maintain track of your duties and appointment and also have an iphone, you may be searching for a resolution to sync Lightning's calendar with the iphone's. Even though there is no way of syncing the two right, you can operate all around the situation by employing Google Calendar as an intermediary.

Download the Supplier plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird (see Assets).

Kick off Mozilla Thunderbird. Click on on "Tools" and decide on "Addons." Navigate to the spot wherever you saved the Supplier plugin, pick the file and Click on "Okay."

Restart Mozilla Thunderbird.

Start your browser and navigate to the Google Calendar internet site (see Sources). Generate a Google account if you do not by now have one.

Login to Google Calendar. Click on on "Settings," decide on the "Calendars" tab. Click on on the calendar you would like to use to sync; if you have no calendars, Develop one making use of the acceptable button.

Scroll down the web page until finally you see a line with the header "Non-public Handle." Straight Click on on the orange "XML" button located in that line and decide on "Duplicate Website link Tackle" (or equivalent, relying on the browser you are employing).

Change back again to Mozilla Thunderbird. Click on on "File," "New," and choose "Calendar."

Decide on "On the Network." Click on "Subsequent."

Choose the "Google Calendar" radio button. Spot your cursor within the text box labeled "Area" and press "CTRL" and "V" to paste the Handle you copied from the Google Calendar settings. Click on "Up coming." Decide on a title and colour for the calendar and Click on "Following."

Enter your complete Google account identify and password. The account title ought to previously be stuffed in; double-examine that it is in the Appropriate format (your_account_identify@gmail.com). Click on "Okay."

Change on your iphone. Faucet "Settings" and open "Mail, Contacts, Calendars."

Faucet "Include Account..." and choose "Microsoft Trade."

Enter your entire Google account identify (your_account_title@gmail.com) in the "E-mail" area. Depart the "Domain" discipline blank.

Enter your total Google account identify (your_account_title@gmail.com) in the "Username" subject. Enter your Google account password in the "Password" discipline. Faucet "Up coming." Faucet "Cancel" if an "Unable to Check Certificate" dialog seems.

Enter "m.google.com" in the "Server" subject. Faucet "Following."

Set the "Calendars" setting to "On." Faucet "Performed."