Thunderbird

I sadly moved away from thunderbird for mail. It was too slow for what I needed at the time.

Now that I have moved to hosting my own caldav server, thunderbird is becoming more attractive again as the only option windows seems to have for caldav syncing calendar apps.

Profiles

Thunderbird stores all of your information in profiles. It is possible to move profiles between computers, and operating systems. This is an ideal candidate for configsync (so all calendar colours match khal, for example).

Deleting Profiles

On windows, you can delete your thunderbird settings by deleting the following folder. Note that removing individual components does not seem to work.

C:\Users\will\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird
~/.thunderbird/

TimeZones

IMPORTANT Thunderbird does not detect your system timezone, you must choose it from

Rclick menubar > Check MenuBar

Edit > Preferences > Calendar > TimeZone
   America/Toronto

Contacts

## Install thunderbird addon: cardbook

## Install thunderbid addon:  cardbook

## Tools > CardBook
##   Address Books > Add Address Book
##      - Remote
##
##      - Type:      CardDav  
##      - URL:       http://lavos.ddns.net:8614/card.php/addressbooks/will/default
##      - username:  will
##      - pass:      <password>
##

Calendars

AddOns

## In order to use calendars at all, you'll need the lightning addon,
## but there are other addons that are also useful.
- lightning
- lightning calendar tabs

Sync CalDAV

## Thunderbird Lightning
|| Calendar Icon ( Square with '7' beneat minimize button ):
   || Calendar Dropdown > Rclick > New Calendar:
      || On the Network:
        || Type:     CalDAV
        || Location: http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/<username>/<calendarname>
                  (http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/default)
        || OfflineSupport:

http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/default	## this is what is currently  displayed...

## Calendars to Add:
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/default
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/work
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/birthdays
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/anniversaries
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/events
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/holidays
http://morpheus/cal.php/calendars/will/alexwork
 

## can always confirm at http://morpheus/admin/index.php

So far, I have not been able to delete one of these calendars if it has not synchronized yet. The only way I have managed to do so successfully is deleting the entire profile.

Colours

## All colours in RGB
##

main:           245 235 24
work:           242 66 4
birthdays:      128 128 255
anniversaries:  213 213 255
events:         120 176 106
holidays:       185 218 139
alexwork:       197 162 226

Troubleshooting