caldav vs plain ics files

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie>:

> Hi,
>
> I've been looking over calendaring as part of our proposed kolab setup
> here.  Our clients are all Outlook and Thunderbird with the occasional
> iphone, mutt, blackberry, etc.  With this in mind, I would prefer to deal
> with widely supported standards like IMAP, CalDAV and ideally CardDAV.
>
> Kolab obviously uses its own mail folder based storage for these tasks, so
> I guess IMAP is effectively the protocol for them all.  I see that the
> current version of kolab provides code to publish ICS calendars from those
> and that Horde is preconfigured to use those.  I would be a little
> concerned about the practicalities of using iCal across a large group of
> users as calendars grow to large sizes.
>
> Are there any plans to directly support CalDAV and/or CardDAV either in the
> web interface or the server?  It seems that the Kolab server's success has
> been founded at least partially in coherently integrating good existing
> products (openldap, cyrus, horde, apache, php, ...).  While a decent
> calendar server may have been hard to find a few years ago, there seem to
> be candidates around now (apple calendar server, davical, ...).
> Authenticating these against the kolab openldap database is relatively
> straightforward -- though of course there's more involved than that.
>
> I could add davical to the Kolab setup myself, but it looks like Horde
> doesn't support CalDAV which is a little awkward (although davical does
> have fall-back support for iCal).

It is likely that Horde 4 will support CalDAV. This is currently work  
in progress.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Gavin
>
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