Anyone using a LuxSci Calendar WebAide can now “publish” their calendar and make it available as iCal file accessible via a public Internet address (URL).  Now, any program that can display the contents of an iCal file can display your LuxSci Calendar directly.  I.e. Mozilla Sunbird, Thunderbird Lightning, Mac iCal, and PHP iCalendar are a few programs that can display calendars loaded from remote iCal files.  Many other programs and systems, including those that support CalDAV, can also display iCal calendar files or synchronize with them.

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LuxSci supports a plethora of modern email programs like Microsoft Outlook and Eudora (our blog posting “Head To Head Battle of Email Clients” discuss several of these) and works with any email program and device that properly supports POP, IMAP, or SMTP.  However, we do recommend Mozilla Thunderbird in the absence of any personal preferences or specific requirements for things that may only be supported in Outlook or other specific programs.  LuxSci’s staff uses Thunderbird with IMAP (or WebMail) uniformly for all email sending and receiving.  We discuss the reasons why in the “Battle” blog article.  Here, we will give some configuration tips and tricks and recommended add-ons.

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