Google Calendar with Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird - accepting invites solution

 

There's an isssue with the Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird addon "Provider for Google Calendar Provider" where you can't accept meeting/calendar invitation from others into your calendar - which is a real pain if you work in a corporate office setup.

The mozilla forums are packed with people posting this issue and no decent solution.

The solution is very simple. Stop using the Provider for Google Calendar Provider and just use Google Calendars CalDAV support

To set up CalDAV support for Google Calendar in Mozilla Sunbird, follow these steps:

Open the Sunbird application and select File > New Calendar.
Select On the Network and click Next.
Select the CalDAV format option.
In the Location field, enter [ https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/ [ your Google Calendar ID ] /events ] and click Next.
Your Google Calendar ID for your primary calendar is just your email address, but for all other calendars the Calendar ID will be in the form of [ long string of characters]@group.calendar.google.com. You can get the Calendar ID by clicking the down arrow next to your calendar at calendar.google.com and selecting 'Calendar Settings'. 
Be sure to use https in your URL, as an http address will not work.

Enter a name and select a color for your calendar.
In the pop-up screen, enter the following information:
Username: This is the complete email address you use with Google Calendar (including the part after the @ sign). If you're using Google Apps, be sure to enter your Google Apps email address. 
Password: This is the password you use to sign in to Google Calendar

Click OK.

Your Google Calendar will now appear in the Calendar tab of Mozilla Sunbird/Lighting, and any invites can now be accepted

checking your SRV records for google apps IM

If your having issues setting up your SRV records for google apps - a great little tool to check if your dns entries are OK is available from the olark.com website

refer below for links and image:

http://www.olark.com/gtalk/check_srv


how to setup require google sub-domains for google apps with the free namecheap.com dns hosting

note: the googleffffffffcbf55ae7 sub-somain is for verification purposes - you'll

update: the below html paste didn't work out to well, in the 3rd column select CNAME (Alias)

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   MAIL SETTINGS 

how to setup SRV records ( for google apps IM ) on the free namecheap.com DNS hosting

setting up SRV records -so you can user google IM for your google apps domain is a real pain with namecheap.com

- below is what you need to enter

note: when entering the _SEVRICE don't enter the first _ (underscore) as the save will fail and you'll loose all your data - namecheap adds it in after its saved

update: the below html paste didnt work to well - but you should be able to figure it out
 SRV SETTINGS 
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