How to read / accept / reject meeting invite in Mozilla Thunderbird

Question

When someone sends me a meeting invite from Microsoft Outlook, I don't get a properly formatted e-mail in my Mozilla Thunderbird. I cannot accept nor reject the meeting invite.

Can anyone please let me know how to view / accept / reject meeting invites in Thunderbird?

Solution

You can use the Lightning add-on for thunderbird. After installing and restarting you can now accept outlook invitations

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Comments

[Nirav Mehta]

Could you please post steps / links from where I can download the Lightining add-on?

[phuclv]

It's been a long time since the last time I used thunderbird so I don't know if the UI has changed much or not. But you can always open the menu, select add-ons and search for lightning. You can reference here although I think it's bit old

[Derek Simkowiak]

I now see Accept / Decline buttons for meeting invites, but have not found any way to view the date and time before clicking Accept. Outlook is sending the invitations base64 encoded so I can't easily see the plaintext either.