Adding lightning to the new Thunder

The other day I decided to download Thunderbird 3 RC 2, naturally no sooner had I got it set up than they released the final version.

I have to say I really do like the search improvements; the fully syncronised/indexed folders mean comprehesnive searching and offline support while keeping the perks of imap. The upgrade was smooth, with mail, addressbook, pgp keys etc all making it safely (backed up first of course).

The only real problem I had was that the current release of lightning isn't compatible, which is rather a pain. I'm sure it'll be along soon, but I can't really go without my calender, so I what can I do?

Well, I thought about downgrading, but it seems a waste of time given it sure to be harder than upgrading, and I'll only have to undo it again. So I decided to give a recent lightning nightly a go.

I used the ones at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/

Again, all going smoothly for me.

Calenders all upgraded fine, and using the gdataprovider from the same folder, my google calender is working too. How painless. hurray, good job you hard working dev types you.

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As a word of caution, this worked for me, but the lightning/gdata plugins aren't release versions, so use them at your own risk. I'm really just using them as a tide over until something stable and compatible comes along, very soon hopefully!