Using Thunderbird with Google Calendar
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This article describes how to use Google calendars together with Thunderbird. You can use Google calendars in two ways. You can either have read-only access to public calendars or you can use a bi-directional calendar, with both read and write-access.
Read access
If you only need read-access to a Google calendar, you can use the link of the public ICS file which is provided by Google, as indicated on this Google Help article: View from other applications
Read and write access
Configure Google account
Before you start the steps below, go to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect and select the calendars you want to synchronize.
Add Calendars
To get read/write access to a calendar:
- Press Ctrl + 3Alt + 3 to open the Calendar tab.
- On the bottom left, click > > and then enter your Google account address as username. This should start the Google sign-in flow.
In case of errors, please retry at least once). After giving Thunderbird access to your calendars, you should be able to select any of the calendars you enabled in the previous step and add them to Thunderbird.