November 2009 - calendarserver-users

ical invite mail not being sent on mac 10.5.7.
by diptesh patel 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi all, i tried to run the latest calendarserver from svn (4805). i could successfully create event in mac ical 10.5.7 but when i added a attendee in calendar entries , the invite mail is not being sent. When i add attendees to entry in local ical calendar then the invite mail is being sent. is this a bug or i need to do some settings in ical /mail ? i have the following configurations me( entry in addressbook) : work email - abc(a)gmail.com mail imap : abc(a)gmail.com calendarserver user's email address: abc(a)gmail.com

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iMIP settings
by Conrad Wasmer 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Has anyone had success setting up DCS to send and receive emailed invitations? I run DCS (improperly using the ./run -d script) on the same machine as my mailserver. And I have fiddled with the plist settings for scheduling, but to no avail. Any direction would be much appreciated. Thanks! Conrad Wasmer ---

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Home Install on Darwin
by Dirk 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hi! Can anybody shed some light on how to do a home install of the server on Darwin? I have the server running in Debug mode, but do not want to pollute lots of directories with parts of the server. Home install looks perfect for me. Tries release 2.3 and trunk. Tried under 10.5 and 10.6: DCS $ svn checkout http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/trunk ./calendarserver-trunk ... calendarserver-trunk $ mkdir /tmp/DCS calendarserver-trunk $ ./run -I /tmp/DCS ... running build_ext gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DMACOSX -I/usr/include/ffi -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DMACOSX -I/usr/include/ffi -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o conftest.c:1:23: error: sys/epoll.h: No such file or directory conftest.c:1:23: error: sys/epoll.h: No such file or directory ..... copying conf/caldavd.plist -> /Users/theisen/DCS/calendarserver-trunk/build/dst/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/caldavd running install_egg_info Writing /Users/theisen/DCS/calendarserver-trunk/build/dst/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twistedcaldav-trunk._r4808_-py2.5.egg-info rewriting /Users/theisen/DCS/calendarserver-trunk/build/dst/usr/local/bin/caldavd rewriting /Users/theisen/DCS/calendarserver-trunk/build/dst/usr/local/bin/calendarserver_export rewriting /Users/theisen/DCS/calendarserver-trunk/build/dst/usr/local/bin/calendarserver_manage_principals building file list ... rsync: link_stat "/Users/theisen/DCS/calendarserver-trunk/build/dst/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/." failed: No such file or directory (2) done Looks like it's trying to build and install python, which is not neccessary on 10.5/10.6. Are those special Python versions? I remember the debug versions using the builtin python command after a check. Please help. Greetings, Dirk

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DCS Support RSS Feeds?
by Eric Lemings 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, I was wondering if DCS can read RSS feeds. Some calendars that I know of are published as RSS feeds. If it does, please point me in the right direction. :) If not, what would it take to add such support? Thanks, Eric.

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uid uniqueness
by Dirk 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi! Question: guids in the accounts.xml configuration file are globally unique, ok. But what about the uids? Do group and user uids use the same "name space"? Can there be a group with uid "admin" and a user with uid "admin"? I was not able to find any docu about this. Greetings, Dirk

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Icon License
by Dirk 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi! I found the calendar server icon file in the contrib folder. What's the license of that file? Greetings, Dirk

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LaunchAgent?
by Ralf Höling 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi, i just setup a DCS on a Leopard Client System in my user-folder and it works fine. The only problem is that I have to start the server by hand; the launch-agent doesn't work and the run-script doesn't look like described in <http://tobyrush.blogspot.com/2007/11/dummies-guide-to-darwin-calendar-serve… > so I'm not able to make the changes, described there. On Konsole I get the following error-message: 21.11.09 11:05:27 org.apple.calendar[184] /Users/ralf/Kalender/ CalendarServer/run: line 38: support/build.sh: No such file or directory 21.11.09 11:05:27 com.apple.launchd[159] (org.apple.calendar[184]) Exited with exit code: 1 Is there any possibility for creating a working LaunchAgent or startup- item? Best Regards Ralf

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OS X Server vs Darwin Calendar Server and my first DCS installation
by Scott Haneda 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Can someone list the pros and cons of using DCS versus using the built in calender server on OS X Server on Snow Leopard? Or are they the same source perhaps? I am looking for basic family based calendar serving and sharing, simple stuff. I did get trunk working last night. Quite easy really. The details you enter into iCal were a bit tricky to discover, but once past that, it did seem to work. My limitations were not knowing where to deal with adding users and setting their permissions, but I also did not dig into it in any significant way. One thing I noticed, is I synced the default admin account with a local mac and an iPhone as my test case. Changes and additions to the local mac, importing of pre-existing calendars etc, all worked flawlessly and fast. Making a change on iPhone and syncing, with a forced refresh in iCal on the desktop, propogated on refresh. iPhone on the other hand did not. I am not seeing any way in calendar on iPhone to force a refresh. Eventually the changes make their way, what defines this? Does DCS support push notifications out to iPhones? I added attendees which made it to all clients eventually, however, iPhone also did not recognize them as existing users in my address book, though they were there. Names showed as "uid:user" or something to that effect. (that literal string) Attached files were not anywhere obvious in iPhone either. All other fields seemed to have parity. This was with a trunk snapshot from last night. Are my issues 3.x related, or am I missing something obvious? On DCS, when an alert is set to notify via email, does this rely on the local MTA on the DCS machine, or is there an in built mailer I will need to SMTP authenticate with, or is the client responsible for the mail notifications? For alerts, on remote clients such as iPhone, anything special I need to set up, or is making sure a reasonable refresh rate is defined in iCal sufficient? I've tried a lot of ways to do this, the gmail middleman dance, looked at busycal, some php messes, and a few more. My first try a few weeks ago was DCS, but I never could get iCal to talk to it. Which was just needing the URL to have the URI bits attached. Maybe the wiki could use some edits there? Can I make such edits, or is that private? If the answer is that OS X Server is the same, I may go that way for integration simplicity. If not, I'd like to start work on a MacPorts Portfile for DCS. Has any effort into a MacPorts Portfile been made in the past, seems I must be missing it, being in the same "forge" and all :) MacPorts likes to sandbox to it's own prefix very strongly, perhaps that, meaning a full blown new python install and source modification to all paths has something to do with the port never being made. I am betting every -s bit is going to need touching by MacPorts as well. Any past history with regard to MacPorts and DCS would be appreciated. Thanks all. -- Scott Iphone says hello.

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Available Features using XMLDirectoryService?
by Dirk 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hello! I am new to this list and interested in running the Darwin Calendar Server for a small company. We'd need a setup like this: 4 user accounts: 1 boss 1 secretary 2 employees Have 1 personal calendar for each of the 4 users. 1 company wide shared group calendar where all of the 4 persons have read/write access. The secretary has read/write access to boss’ personal calendar. Calendar Clients are Apple iCal from 10.5. and 10.6 as well as the iPhone client. My questions are (after installing DCS and playing with accounts.xml): How do I configure above scenario? Is it possible at all? Do I need a specific release (build) version of the DCS to accomplish this? Is the accounts.xml rewritten by the server when a user assigns a new delegate in iCal? Why is accounts.xml as it is? I'd expect a calendar server to have calendars as first class objects. Instead, there are users which seem to have one (one one?) implicit calendar. Thanks, Dirk

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Available Features using XMLDirectoryService?
by Guy 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

On 19 Nov 2009, at 12:31, Dirk Theisen wrote: > Hi, Guy! > >> nope I think any current (ish) release will work fine. >> >>> Is the accounts.xml rewritten by the server when a user assigns a >>> new delegate in iCal? >>> >> >> nope never written to again. Only read, and seems to only be read on >> start up, so any changes you make to it will require a restart to >> update :( > > This sounds like a show-stopper for a real-world deployment. > All it really means is that adding/removing users requires a restart. > Does it mean, you can add delegates (proxies) in iCal and every time you restart the server, those changes are gone? > nope they are maintained elsewhere (in the users own calendar data objects) and are persistent across restarts etc. > Greetings, > Dirk

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