Spicebird – PIM software

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

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