[ale] OT: Slightly Linking T-Bird's calendar to Google

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 August 2007 02:06:40 pm Scott Castaline wrote:
>   
>> Anyone know if it's possible to link the Lightning Calendar plug-in for
>> T-Bird to Google 's calendar? I'd like to be able to create events on
>> Lightning which transparently get loaded on my google calendar and vice
>> versa. Otherwords using Lightning as a local client and Google as the
>> server for iCal. I tried importing the iCal file from Google, but that
>> didn't work as Lightning complained that it was unreadable. It seems to
>> work with I think it's KPim or something like that, but I'd rather do
>> the T-Bird/Lightning route as I usually leave T-Bird open all the time.
>>     
>
>
> There's a program out there that does exactly what you want:
>
> http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/
>
> The site has instructions for making it work with just about any mail client, 
> Thunderbird included. Once it's set up, just add instructions to start the 
> daemon in rc.local and then every time you open your desktop mail client, it 
> will be synced with GCal. Mine works like a charm with Kontact too.
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Thanks Jim, looks like something that I can use on my wife's system M$ 
WinBlo$e 2K until I can finally convince her on Linux.