Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks.
Lightning is a fairly new development. Its first public release was in early 2006. However, being based off of the same backend code as Mozilla Sunbird®, it is maturing quickly.
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r the details of what's new in this release, please read the Lightning Release Notes.
Some goals for future releases are:
Even tighter Thunderbird integration email-to-task linkage Thunderbird address book integration more robust iMIP support (meeting invitations) more robust CalDAV support offline calendar use printing device synchronization (Palm, PocketPC, iPod, phone, etc.) >
