Meqaris

Description

Meqaris (Meeting Equipment and Room Invitation System) is a system that allows booking resources using e-mail invitations.

Meqaris allows to:

• register meeting resources,
• send invitations to the resources (requires mail server support),
• receive positive and negative replies.

Features:

• supports RFC 2445/5545 iCalendar attachments in mails (RFC 2446/5546 and 2447/6047), both with the text/calendar and application/ics MIME types,
• sends mail replies back to the sender (RFC 2446/5546 and 2447/6047),
• can pipe the response mail to a specified command,
• supports creation, updates and cancellation of single events,
• supports creation, updates and cancellation of recurring events,
• supports both interval-defined and duration-defined events,
• supports CalDAV (RFC 4791),
• supports booking multiple resources in a single invitation,
• automatically updates its own database structures to the required version when needed,
• supports time zones,
• mail replies and logs can have various verbosity levels,
• has wide logging capabilities,
• has a command-line interface - no need to run SQL statements,
• portable and system-independent.

Meqaris homepage: https://meqaris.sourceforge.io/

Requirements

1. Perl (https://www.perl.org/), along with some modules (see the documentation inside the package),
2. a PostgreSQL database server (https://www.postgresql.org/), version 9.2 or newer, with the btree_gist extension.

Compatibility

Various versions of Meqaris were successfully used with the following components in the following versions:

1. PostgreSQL:

• 11.x (checked: 11.18), with an extra installation step
• 12.x (checked: 12.13), with an extra installation step
• 13.x (checked: 13.9)
• 14.x (checked: 14.1)
• 15.x (checked: 15.1, 15.3)
• 16.x (checked: 16.0)

2. Perl:

• v5.20.3
• v5.34.0

3. Postfix (https://www.postfix.org/):

• 3.6.5

4. Cyrus IMAP (https://www.cyrusimap.org/) (CalDAV module):

• 3.6.0

Other versions may also work.

ChangeLog

For a summary of changes, refer to the ChangeLog file in the package.

WARNING

The dev branch may contain code which is a work in progress and committed just for tests. The code here may not work properly or even compile.

The master branch may contain code which is committed just for quality tests.

The tags, matching the official packages on SourceForge, should be the most reliable points.