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ICloud Calender and challenge in Mozilla Thunderbird / Lightning

Does anyone know how I can get the calendar and tasks from iCloud to Mozilla Thunderbird / Lightning - and those are editable?

I know how to make a public agenda in iCloud, but this agenda is read-only.

I hope someone can help ...

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After many studies, I found a solution.

This is provided by https://icloud.niftyside.com/

They have a php script where you can fill in the credentials and the correct CardDAV / Contacts servers, which you can add to Mozilla Thunderbird / Lightning

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Recently, a German solution has been working for me, while the Ronny link, unfortunately, does not work, since I just do not get any answers from the server: https://www.nico-beuermann.de/blogging/archives/115 -Zugriff-auf-iCloud-Kalender-mit-Thunderbird.html

You will need three ingredients for Thunderbird:

a. your calendar server (especially the xx number in pxx-caldav.icloud.com)

b. your user id ( dsid )

with. calendar id ( guid )

In short (and in English):

  • Logging into your iCloud calendar in your browser is the first important step.

You can use Firefox or Chrome to browse the web; I will continue to use Chrome for this explanation.

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + I and go to the Network tab; it may be empty, because recording may also begin after pressing Ctrl + Shift + I; if it is empty, just restart access to the open network tab.

  2. In my case, it was useful to right-click on a column to additionally show the domain

  3. checking a domain or just hanging on links, you can find xx in pxx, this is your specific server; the rest of the domain does not matter ( information a )

  4. Then I clicked on one entry with the domain pxx-calendarws.icloud.com

  5. in a new new window, you can click the title and find dsid somewhere below in the query string parameters; alternatively, you can find it in the url; dsid matches your user ID ( information b )

  6. now switch from “Headers” to “Disclaimer”; you may need to check multiple url strings to find them with the correct answer, but you will find several guid entries that match your calendar IDs ( info c )

Now you have all three pieces of information. In Thunderbird with the Calendar Lightning plugin, now add a network calendar like “CalDAV” (iCalendar will not work!). There you can enter the following URL with the information in bold:

https: // p xx -caldav.icloud.com/ DSID / calendars / reference

Et voìla. You will need to enter your credentials for iCloud. This worked on the date of this post with Thunderbird 45.8.0 with Lightning 4.7.8.

July 18, 2017 Patch: Apparently, sometime in June, Apple changed something with the system. Now you need to activate two-factor authentication to create application-specific passwords. You can do this using any of your Apple devices. You must then log in to your Apple account. In the security area, you can generate a password. Use this to log in to your thunderbird with your email address. This seems to be normal.

Without two-factor authentication, you cannot activate application passwords. And without an application-specific password, CalDAV seems to be no longer available.

Update September 5, 2017 . PGuid seems to work sometimes, but guid is not for the calendar id. So take care.

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