Last Updated on July 13, 2021
Spicebird is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) based on Mozilla Thunderbird’s code. It is developed by Indian company, Synovel.
It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. Spicebird simplifies communication for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of collaboration in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while users can retain all the advantages of a desktop application.
It is similar in many respects to Evolution, a popular GNOME PIM and workgroup information management tool.
Features include:
- Access email from internet providers using POP/IMAP protocols.
- Groups mail on any field. Identifies spam.
- Manage schedules using calendar and tasks applications. Multiple calendar subscription, web calendar subscription, day/week/month views, alarms etc.
- Subscribe to public calendars.
- Read news/blogs using RSS subscriptions.
- Manage contacts.
- Based on a powerful instant messaging framework called Telepathy, Spicebird supports many new protocols in addition to Google Talk and Jabber: AIM, ICQ, Novel Groupwise, MSN, MySpace, QQ, Simple and Yahoo.
- Uses local, Caldav server and ICS files on the network as data sources for calendars.
- Support for Google Gadgets.
Website: spicebird.org
Support:
Developer: The Kontact Team
License: GNU GPL v2
Spicebird is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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