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===Google Calendar Notes===
CalDAV vs. GDATA: Most of Google Calendar's features can be accessed via the CalDAV protocol , for which Lightning has built-in support is an early prototype and is not recommended; users who just want to access their Google Calendar are much better off using the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/addon/4631 , making GDATA provider]optional. Reminder alarm loop: Google Calendar's In the past, CalDAV server does not preserve Sunbird/Lightning alarm properties access was bugged, causing alarms (reminders) to sync improperly, but this has been fixed ([http://code.google.com/p/google-caldav-issues/issues/detail?id=25 Google CalDAV issue 25], Sunbird/Lightning {{bug|451821}}), so Sunbird/. Reminders set in Lightning now sync properly via CalDAV and will get into an infinite alarm loop. (Events are created with an alarm by default, disregarding Sunbird/Lightning preferences, so just creating an event starts appear as pop-ups in the loop.) The workaround is to tell Sunbird/Lightning to ignore these alarms: web interface and as notifications in the Calendars tab, popup the menu on the Google Android calendar, click 'Properties', and uncheck app. Only the checkbox "show alarms"ability to set up SMS or email reminders is missing.
Location URL: As described in the [http://www.googlewatchblog.de/2008/08/02/calendar-mit-via-webdav-mitsunbird-oder-thunderbird-synchronisieren/ instructions (in German)], the CalDAV URL is of the form<br/> https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/<i>CALENDAR_ID</i>/events<br/>
where <i>CALENDAR_ID</i> for your initial calendar is your full email@address. The calendar URLs end with <tt>/events</tt>, not <tt>/user</tt> (<tt>/user</tt> identifies the user account, not the calendar, and is used in Apple iCal). For other calendars, extract the calendar id from the URLs in the calendar settings page of the webUI.
No Tasks: Google Calendar does not Neither CalDAV nor the GDATA provider support tasks (todo's). More known limitations are listed at [http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99355 Google Calendar CalDAV Support].
===Yahoo Calendar Beta Notes===
