Looking into a solution for Caldav (and possibly carddav) support
We have an existing Dovecot/Postfix/Roundcube email solution, which I was hoping to add Caldav (and carddav?) support to, with the goal of 3rd party email clients being able to keep contacts and calendars in sync (as well as having the same information in roundcube)
In doing research, I came across traces of it being considered for Dovecot at one time (https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-September/101996.html), and I was wondering where this went.
Specifically, https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-September/101997.html seemed to hint that metadata support was a prerequisite for this (mainstream as of the email), and I was wondering if this meant there was potentially a solution built on top of this.
Thank you
-- Nathan Coulson
Hello,
The metadata support in dovecot is now quite stable ( at least i didn't encountered problems on my servers )
But the metadata is only about marking the folders ( you can mark a folder as "calendar" or "contact").
caldav/carddav are based on webdav protocol, so normally you need an web server to publish them.
In kolab there is iRony as web application.
I can confirm you can use dovecot ( instead of cyrus) but is not trivial and I didn't know much about the compatibility for shared calendars.
The requests I had are mainly regarding contacts ( it depends on the type of organization you serve) .
So, it is possible but it is not about dovecot alone but it's an entire ecosystem ( and that's normal). I think implementing webdav directly in dovecot is somehow reinventing the wheel..
On 06/30/2018 03:06 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote:
We have an existing Dovecot/Postfix/Roundcube email solution, which I was hoping to add Caldav (and carddav?) support to, with the goal of 3rd party email clients being able to keep contacts and calendars in sync (as well as having the same information in roundcube)
In doing research, I came across traces of it being considered for Dovecot at one time (https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-September/101996.html), and I was wondering where this went.
Specifically, https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-September/101997.html seemed to hint that metadata support was a prerequisite for this (mainstream as of the email), and I was wondering if this meant there was potentially a solution built on top of this.
Thank you
Am 30.06.2018 um 07:13 schrieb Mihai Badici:
I can confirm you can use dovecot ( instead of cyrus) but is not trivial and I didn't know much about the compatibility for shared calendars.
Cyrus IMAPd provides exactly that, easily ;-)
https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/installation/manage-dav.html
Alexander
Cyrus may offer the best implementation of cards and calendars ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CalDAV_and_CardDAV_implementat... ) but would you trade its imap for dovecots own?
I am starving for an open-source card and calendar solution that is sound and secure, so cyrus is a good candidate, but I need it to go along with the existing structure, i do not want to start fresh with a new imap server.
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 11:19, Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org wrote:
Am 30.06.2018 um 07:13 schrieb Mihai Badici: > I can confirm you can use dovecot ( instead of cyrus) but is not trivial > and I didn't know much about the compatibility for shared calendars. Cyrus IMAPd provides exactly that, easily ;-) https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/installation/manage-dav.html Alexander
I'm using ownCloud for cal- and carddav. Works quite nicely. However I cannot state about scaling - we have like 30 users using apporx. 100 devices accessing cal- and carddav Am Samstag, den 30.06.2018, 08:25 -0400 schrieb Rupert Gallagher:
Cyrus may offer the best implementation of cards and calendars ( http s://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CalDAV_and_CardDAV_implemen tationsns ) but would you trade its imap for dovecots own?
I am starving for an open-source card and calendar solution that is sound and secure, so cyrus is a good candidate, but I need it to go along with the existing structure, i do not want to start fresh with a new imap server.
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 11:19, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@uni-x.org> wrote:
Am 30.06.2018 um 07:13 schrieb Mihai Badici: > I can confirm you can use dovecot ( instead of cyrus) but is not trivial > and I didn't know much about the compatibility for shared calendars. Cyrus IMAPd provides exactly that, easily ;-) https://www.cyrusimap .org/imap/download/installation/manage-dav.html Alexander
Hi,
It sounds as if you want to be looking at sogo.nu:
It re-uses your imap/mail setup, and implements caldav/carddav, and also ActiveSync to interact with the same contacts/calendars.
Take a look: It's modern and very well-maintained, plus light-weight.
MJ
On 06/30/2018 02:06 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote:
We have an existing Dovecot/Postfix/Roundcube email solution, which I was hoping to add Caldav (and carddav?) support to, with the goal of 3rd party email clients being able to keep contacts and calendars in sync (as well as having the same information in roundcube)
In doing research, I came across traces of it being considered for Dovecot at one time (https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-September/101996.html), and I was wondering where this went.
Specifically, https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-September/101997.html seemed to hint that metadata support was a prerequisite for this (mainstream as of the email), and I was wondering if this meant there was potentially a solution built on top of this.
Thank you
participants (6)
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Alexander Dalloz
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manix
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Mihai Badici
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mj
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Nathan Coulson
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Rupert Gallagher