[Dovecot] Web-based shared calendar synchronizable with Outlook

Rick Romero rick at havokmon.com
Fri May 30 17:29:40 EEST 2008


On May 30, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Samuel HAMEAU wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I know this request is a a little off-topic but may be interesting  
>> for
>> dovecot users (at least i hope!)
>> Does anybody has already had an experience with a calendar sharing  
>> solution including a webcalendar and an outlook connector,  
>> "compatible" with dovecot ?
>> Today, there are many projects aiming to be a "M$ Exchange  
>> Killer" (such
>> as Zimbra, OBM, open-exchange, etc) but they offers a global  
>> package with MTA and imap server included.
>> I saw the page about BynariConnector (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ 
>> HowTo/BynariConnector) but unfortunatly they do not provide a  
>> webmail :(
>> I'm afraid
>> What I am looking for is a shared agenda solution providing a  
>> webcalendar, an outlook connector and eventually a pda connector,  
>> using (or not) dovecot, and a corporate ldap server...
>> What are you guys using ?
>
> Not using right now but I have used WebCal (http://bulldog.tzo.org/ 
> webcal/).  It went end-of-life back in 2003 and I haven't found  
> it's replacement (though only doing some light searching.)
>
> Some of the user/administrator interface is butt-ugly (mostly color  
> selection and combinations) but it does a nice job at shared  
> calendars/resources and the big plus for me is it is written in  
> Perl so can be modified.
>

The latest from the Horde project has a sharable calendar system, and  
uses SyncML to sync to other devices.

I've used the shared calendars a little, but I'm a couple revisions  
behind for trying out the SyncML stuff.

Rick


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