Google calendar at Thunderbird, without mails - possible?

Question

I would like to have access to my Google Calendar under Thunderbird, but I don't want Thunderbird to manage my mails from Google. So, I want only Calendar functionality, without the mail itself. Is that possible?

I have Thunderbird with Provider for Google Calendar installed, I wanted to add an account only for the calendar, but I am afraid that when I create the account for Gmail it will suck and catalogue my mails from Gmail, what I don't want.

Answer 1

Use lightning the calendar extension for thunderbird.

1. Install lightning: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html

2. Enable google calendar with sunbird/lightning: http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#sunbird

Answer 2

You can use thunderbird plugin "Zindus". I use it to sync my google calender with Thunderbird's Lightning calender and it has always worked flawlessly.