caldav vs plain ics files

[Alain abbas]

hi Gavin

we had the same problem to integrate Lighting/thunderbird and we have 
modified davical for that it work with
kolab. We have few servers in test. We added in Davical the CardDav 
support. We use that with SogoConnector
in Thunderbird and lighting (version sogo 0.9.6). If you are interested 
i can publish the code. For the moment we are
in test with that and there are some tasks to accomplish to terminate 
it. (just Calendar and Contacts work, todo stay in Davical
and they are not seen at Kolab side).
This is perhaps a way to follow ...


Alain Abbas


Gavin McCullagh a écrit :
> 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).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Gavin
>
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