Prerequisites
- Create an App Password — You need an app password first
Set Up Calendar Sync in Thunderbird
Four steps on a desktop, with changes travelling both ways.
Before You Begin
- An app password, and the Base URL (Android / Thunderbird) address
- Mozilla Thunderbird installed on your computer
Thunderbird supports this kind of calendar natively, so there is nothing extra to install.
Use the Base URL (Android / Thunderbird) form of the address — the full link, the same one Android uses, not the bare name iPhone wants.
Steps
Open the calendar and start a new one
Switch to Calendar in Thunderbird, then choose New Calendar.
Choose a network calendar
Select On the Network and continue. This is the option for a calendar that lives on a server rather than in a local file.
Enter your details
Give Thunderbird:
- Location — the Base URL from Zyntro, the full link.
- Username — the email address you use for Zyntro.
- Password — your app password.
Thunderbird finds the calendars available to you.
Choose your calendars and finish
Select the calendars you want and complete the wizard. They appear in Thunderbird's calendar list, and you can colour them as you like.
Changes travel both ways from this point: edit in Thunderbird and Zyntro follows, and the reverse.
Result
Your Zyntro calendars are in Thunderbird alongside anything else you keep there, syncing in both directions.
As with a phone, anything you add in Thunderbird blocks that time in Zyntro.
Tip: Use a separate app password for each computer. If you set Thunderbird up on a work and a home machine, two passwords named for each let you cut one off without touching the other.
