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One of the oft repeated questions when comparing Thunderbird to Outlook
is the lack of calendar and task functionality.

There is a Mozilla Calendar project that provides similar functionality
in two ways: a Mozilla extension and a standalone application that ships
with the Mozilla framework.

I'm currently using the standalone Sunbird application which compares
quite well with the Outlook functionality, although it is only at version
0.2+ at present. It appears to be quite stable on Windows 98.

I also tried installing the extension in Thunderbird 0.8, but it crashed
repeatedly and had to be uninstalled. Probably at this early stage it is
better to use the standalone rather than risk crashing Thunderbird with
the bugs.

More info:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

Patrick Dunford <> wrote in
news:. nz:

> One of the oft repeated questions when comparing Thunderbird to
> Outlook is the lack of calendar and task functionality.
>
> There is a Mozilla Calendar project that provides similar
> functionality in two ways: a Mozilla extension and a standalone
> application that ships with the Mozilla framework.
>
> I'm currently using the standalone Sunbird application which compares
> quite well with the Outlook functionality, although it is only at
> version 0.2+ at present. It appears to be quite stable on Windows 98.
>
> I also tried installing the extension in Thunderbird 0.8, but it
> crashed repeatedly and had to be uninstalled. Probably at this early
> stage it is better to use the standalone rather than risk crashing
> Thunderbird with the bugs.
>
> More info:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
>

The plug in has not been updated yet (for Thunderbird 0. My experience
doing what you did was that it just didn't work, infact the button didn't
even appear in the list, though I was running XP.

I did read that you can sync the calander on a Palm (?) - I think this
might be using Sunbird ?

Have you had any problems with Sunbird ?

Has anyone used Sunbird under XP ?



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Chris said the following on 17/09/2004 13:16:

> Patrick Dunford <> wrote in
> news:. nz:
>
>
>>One of the oft repeated questions when comparing Thunderbird to
>>Outlook is the lack of calendar and task functionality.
>>
>>There is a Mozilla Calendar project that provides similar
>>functionality in two ways: a Mozilla extension and a standalone
>>application that ships with the Mozilla framework.
>>
>>I'm currently using the standalone Sunbird application which compares
>>quite well with the Outlook functionality, although it is only at
>>version 0.2+ at present. It appears to be quite stable on Windows 98.
>>
>>I also tried installing the extension in Thunderbird 0.8, but it
>>crashed repeatedly and had to be uninstalled. Probably at this early
>>stage it is better to use the standalone rather than risk crashing
>>Thunderbird with the bugs.
>>
>>More info:
>>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
>>
>
>
> The plug in has not been updated yet (for Thunderbird 0. My experience
> doing what you did was that it just didn't work, infact the button didn't
> even appear in the list, though I was running XP.
>
> I did read that you can sync the calander on a Palm (?) - I think this
> might be using Sunbird ?
>
> Have you had any problems with Sunbird ?
>
> Has anyone used Sunbird under XP ?
>
>
I havnt tried it yet, but if its got palm synch then it will be next on
my testing list.

Collector-NZ <> wrote in
news::

> Chris said the following on 17/09/2004 13:16:
>
>> Patrick Dunford <> wrote in
>> news:. nz:
>>
>>
>>>One of the oft repeated questions when comparing Thunderbird to
>>>Outlook is the lack of calendar and task functionality.
>>>
>>>There is a Mozilla Calendar project that provides similar
>>>functionality in two ways: a Mozilla extension and a standalone
>>>application that ships with the Mozilla framework.
>>>
>>>I'm currently using the standalone Sunbird application which compares
>>>quite well with the Outlook functionality, although it is only at
>>>version 0.2+ at present. It appears to be quite stable on Windows 98.
>>>
>>>I also tried installing the extension in Thunderbird 0.8, but it
>>>crashed repeatedly and had to be uninstalled. Probably at this early
>>>stage it is better to use the standalone rather than risk crashing
>>>Thunderbird with the bugs.
>>>
>>>More info:
>>>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
>>>
>>
>>
>> The plug in has not been updated yet (for Thunderbird 0. My
>> experience doing what you did was that it just didn't work, infact
>> the button didn't even appear in the list, though I was running XP.
>>
>> I did read that you can sync the calander on a Palm (?) - I think
>> this might be using Sunbird ?
>>
>> Have you had any problems with Sunbird ?
>>
>> Has anyone used Sunbird under XP ?
>>
>>
> I havnt tried it yet, but if its got palm synch then it will be next
> on my testing list.
>
>

I just went to have a look and it doesn't, but it's in the development
program.


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Chris <> wrote in news:414a4c53$:



Maybe I was thinking of Thunderbird which can sync the address book on a
Palm


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In article <> in nz.comp on 16 Sep 2004
20:16:53 -0500, Chris <> says...
> Patrick Dunford <> wrote in
> news:. nz:
>
> > One of the oft repeated questions when comparing Thunderbird to
> > Outlook is the lack of calendar and task functionality.
> >
> > There is a Mozilla Calendar project that provides similar
> > functionality in two ways: a Mozilla extension and a standalone
> > application that ships with the Mozilla framework.
> >
> > I'm currently using the standalone Sunbird application which compares
> > quite well with the Outlook functionality, although it is only at
> > version 0.2+ at present. It appears to be quite stable on Windows 98.
> >
> > I also tried installing the extension in Thunderbird 0.8, but it
> > crashed repeatedly and had to be uninstalled. Probably at this early
> > stage it is better to use the standalone rather than risk crashing
> > Thunderbird with the bugs.
> >
> > More info:
> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
> >
>
> The plug in has not been updated yet (for Thunderbird 0. My experience
> doing what you did was that it just didn't work, infact the button didn't
> even appear in the list, though I was running XP.

It may well be that the plugin is not compatible with 0.8. When I went to
Preferences to set the alarm options it crashed, and crashed again each
time I tried to open the Calendar at all.

In any case I'm unsure if alarms would work if the calendar window was
not opened.

>
> I did read that you can sync the calander on a Palm (?) - I think this
> might be using Sunbird ?
>
> Have you had any problems with Sunbird ?

Haven't used it very much yet, but it has improved enough in 0.2
(calendar alarms work now) that I am planning to transfer all my calendar
data to it.

It is possible to publish your calendar to an FTP or WebDAV server and
make it viewable on the Internet using PHP scripting, but it can't yet
sync with a Palm pilot

In article <> in nz.comp on Fri, 17 Sep 2004
13:27:36 +1200, Collector-NZ <> says...
> Chris said the following on 17/09/2004 13:16:
>
> > Patrick Dunford <> wrote in
> > news:. nz:
> >
> >
> >>One of the oft repeated questions when comparing Thunderbird to
> >>Outlook is the lack of calendar and task functionality.
> >>
> >>There is a Mozilla Calendar project that provides similar
> >>functionality in two ways: a Mozilla extension and a standalone
> >>application that ships with the Mozilla framework.
> >>
> >>I'm currently using the standalone Sunbird application which compares
> >>quite well with the Outlook functionality, although it is only at
> >>version 0.2+ at present. It appears to be quite stable on Windows 98.
> >>
> >>I also tried installing the extension in Thunderbird 0.8, but it
> >>crashed repeatedly and had to be uninstalled. Probably at this early
> >>stage it is better to use the standalone rather than risk crashing
> >>Thunderbird with the bugs.
> >>
> >>More info:
> >>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
> >>
> >
> >
> > The plug in has not been updated yet (for Thunderbird 0. My experience
> > doing what you did was that it just didn't work, infact the button didn't
> > even appear in the list, though I was running XP.
> >
> > I did read that you can sync the calander on a Palm (?) - I think this
> > might be using Sunbird ?
> >
> > Have you had any problems with Sunbird ?
> >
> > Has anyone used Sunbird under XP ?
> >
> >
> I havnt tried it yet, but if its got palm synch then it will be next on
> my testing list.

Not yet.

Chris wrote:

> Have you had any problems with Sunbird ?
>
> Has anyone used Sunbird under XP ?
>


yeah, its fine

Patrick Dunford wrote:
> Haven't used it very much yet, but it has improved enough in 0.2
> (calendar alarms work now) that I am planning to transfer all my calendar
> data to it.

Yeah, it seems to be fairly usable now. I recently moved all my stuff from
KOrganizer to it on account of Sunbird being able to create a halfway valid
iCalendar file. And it can only get better!

In article <QBH2d.3671$> in nz.comp on Fri, 17
Sep 2004 20:15:51 +0100, Huw Giddens <>
says...
> Patrick Dunford wrote:
> > Haven't used it very much yet, but it has improved enough in 0.2
> > (calendar alarms work now) that I am planning to transfer all my calendar
> > data to it.
>
> Yeah, it seems to be fairly usable now. I recently moved all my stuff from
> KOrganizer to it on account of Sunbird being able to create a halfway valid
> iCalendar file. And it can only get better!

http://www.vetula.com/blog-
radio/stories/2002/11/19/publishingEventsInMozilla.html
for how to make your calendars visible on a website

If it works as the example shows, this could be a very simple way of
updating a calendar on a website.