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