Access calendars/addressbooks using Thunderbird with SOGO Plugins (only for Thunderbird 3.1 and 2.0)

There are three plugins available for Thunderbird application, developed by Inverse (the corporation that supports SOGo).

Those plugins extend the functionalities of Thunderbird in order to access calendars and address books:

1. Mozilla Lightning (Inverse Edition): this a customization of Mozilla Thunderbird plugin Lightning, part of the Mozilla Calendar project
2. SOGo Connector: adds support to access address books created with SOGo, or with other CardDAV-compatible external services (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV)
3. SOGo Integrator: this extension implements a complete integration of Thunderbird with SOGo, managing also the configuration of the other two SOGo plugins (ONLY FOR EXPERT USERS)

A complete description of those plugins is available at http://www.sogo.nu/english/about/overview.html.

Those plugins are compatible only with Thunderbird 2.0 and Thunderbird 3.1 (but a new version is announced for Thunderbird 10 stable release in the 1Q 2012).

To install SOGo plugins for Thunderbird you can refer to the official public documentation: http://www.sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGo%20Mozilla%20Thunderbird%20Configuration.pdf.

To access calendars and address books use the SOGo Connector with Mozilla Lightning (Official or Inverse Edition).

You can download SOGo Connector plugin from SOGo Website or from the service webpage https://calendar.sissa.it/plugins/.

First add the extension to Thunderbird (menu Tools–>Add-ons).

To access a SOGo address book open the “Address Book” window, clicking the specific button in the main toolbar of Thunderbird.

In this window select the item “Remote Address Book” from submenu File –> New, as you see in the following figure:

A window, containing the address book properties, opens:

Insert a name for the address book (may be different from the name of the address book in SOGo) and an URL (see paragraph “Accessing address books from an external client”). The remote addressbook of SOGo is inserted in Thunderbird's list.

Refer to the guide “Access calendars using Thunderbird with Lightning plugin”.