Thunderbird Lightning

I have been a fan of Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client for some time. Even though I was a fan.. I contined to use Microsoft’s Outlook email client. The single biggest factor for my continued use of Outlook was that I relied heavily on its tightly integrated calendar. I knew about Mozilla’s Sundbird calendar and tried using it along with Thunderbird. I would have two applications open and running, which I didn’t like. I tried to do it in order to pry myself away from Outlook, but it just didn’t work. I figured there was a plugin out there for Thunderbird but never got around to looking for one until I read a write-up by Nathan Willis on Linux.com. He went and answered all my questions and provided links for obtaining the Thunderbird calendar plugin called Lightning.

I have Lightning set-up in Thunderbird and will continue to explore all the capabilities especially when you integrate it with Google’s web-based calendar function.

So freeing myself from Outlook is looking more and more promising. Now, if I can only get my employer to do the same.

-djr