| paul@973 | 1 | = Mail Clients = |
| paul@973 | 2 | |
| paul@973 | 3 | Since imip-agent is integrated with mail infrastructure defined by Internet |
| paul@973 | 4 | standards, users can use any mail program that is capable of sending and |
| paul@973 | 5 | receiving standards-based mail. However, it is recommended that |
| paul@973 | 6 | [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045|MIME]]-capable mail programs are used |
| paul@973 | 7 | in order to properly present messages produced by imip-agent. Since the MIME |
| paul@973 | 8 | standards have been in existence since the 1990s, most commonly-used mail |
| paul@973 | 9 | programs should work with imip-agent with few difficulties. |
| paul@973 | 10 | |
| paul@973 | 11 | Meanwhile, mail clients that can understand and present calendar data are |
| paul@973 | 12 | less common. The following Free Software programs have been tested with |
| paul@973 | 13 | imip-agent: |
| paul@973 | 14 | |
| paul@973 | 15 | {{{#!table |
| paul@973 | 16 | '''Program''' || '''Remarks''' |
| paul@973 | 17 | == |
| paul@973 | 18 | [[http://claws-mail.org/|Claws Mail]] |
| paul@973 | 19 | || |
| paul@973 | 20 | * Supports basic scheduling |
| paul@973 | 21 | * Does not support recurring events |
| paul@973 | 22 | * Does not support the `COUNTER` scheduling method |
| paul@973 | 23 | * Does not support free/busy exchange over e-mail |
| paul@973 | 24 | == |
| paul@973 | 25 | [[http://kontact.org/|Kontact]] |
| paul@973 | 26 | || |
| paul@973 | 27 | * Supports scheduling including methods like `COUNTER` |
| paul@973 | 28 | * Supports recurring events |
| paul@973 | 29 | * Seems to support free/busy exchange over e-mail (although not |
| paul@973 | 30 | transparently) and over HTTP |
| paul@973 | 31 | * Seems to require numerous libraries and KDE components, including the |
| paul@973 | 32 | somewhat unpolished [[WikiPedia:Akonadi]] system |
| paul@973 | 33 | == |
| paul@973 | 34 | [[https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/|Mozilla Thunderbird]] (with |
| paul@973 | 35 | [[https://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar|Lightning Calendar]] |
| paul@973 | 36 | extension)<<BR>> |
| paul@973 | 37 | ''Also known as Icedove (and Iceowl) in Debian'' |
| paul@973 | 38 | || |
| paul@1016 | 39 | * Supports basic scheduling |
| paul@1016 | 40 | * Supports recurring events but has deficiencies with `RDATE` and `PERIOD` |
| paul@1016 | 41 | datetimes, causing variations from the basic event duration to be discarded |
| paul@973 | 42 | * Does not support the `COUNTER` scheduling method |
| paul@973 | 43 | * Does not support free/busy exchange over e-mail, but can be made to |
| paul@973 | 44 | fetch free/busy data over HTTP |
| paul@973 | 45 | }}} |
| paul@973 | 46 | |
| paul@973 | 47 | == Notes == |
| paul@973 | 48 | |
| paul@973 | 49 | See [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5546#section-3.2.7|RFC 5546 section 3.2.7]] |
| paul@973 | 50 | for details of the `COUNTER` scheduling method. |
