TB102 - Hotmail, Outlook Calendar Support or Tbsync add-in? How do I access my outlook/hotmail calendar?
I recently upgraded (and then downgraded) to 102 release but was very disappointed to note that the release disables the very useful WebDAV and tbsync add-ons that are mission critical for me to sync my calendars from my hotmail and google accounts in and out of Thunderbird. These work great on TB 91 release and I had hoped that the new release will either provide support for various calendars (Google and Microsoft at the very least) out of the box or preserve the calendar sync support using the existing add-ons at a minimum.
Is there a way to make these calendars sync in Thunderbird 102 release? If so, please help. - Thanks a ton!
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Have you approached the add-on author? This is not a Thunderbird issue as add-ons are developed and supported by their authors independently of the Thunderbird product/project
Matt said
Have you approached the add-on author? This is not a Thunderbird issue as add-ons are developed and supported by their authors independently of the Thunderbird product/project
Understood and will follow-up with tbsync and webDAV add-on developers.
Are there any other add-ons or is there native support already and if not Is there any plan to support most commonly calendar protocols natively by Thunderbird project team? Thanks
The protocols used by outlook are proprietary to Micrisift and the development team are not happy spending time developing solutions that work for only one platform, and are subject to change (including charging for licencing) without notice. The preference is for "open" standards that make calendars from the majority of sources work without special coding.
Thunderbird natively supports carddav for contacts and caldav for calendars. That really covers the vast majority of providers of such services, except Microsoft. Even Apple support the open standards, if discovering how can be less than straight forward. along wih google, yahoo,AOL GMX mail.com and most smaller and paid services.
This project http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ does provide software that interfaces with Microsoft Exchange and offers open standards connections. I used it a number of years ago and found it to be quite stable and reliable. The setup was however less than simple and it had to run in the background all the time to provide it's services.