June 2010 - calendarserver-users - lists.macosforge.org

DCS Configuration Manual?
by Corey Head 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hello-- Looking through the archives and all over, the best thing I could find for help configuring the DCS is this: http://www.macworld.com/article/132736/caldavserver.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a3… It's a bit dated and has nothing about the CardDAV server now included with the CalDAV server. Is there anything out there that talks about how to configure these pieces? I need the CalDAV server's more advanced settings than discussed in the above article, like how to setup sending invites to others not on this server. Also, I would like to start on the CardDAV but see nothing out about that one and how to get started with it. I assumed some similarities between the configuration for it and the CalDAV, but haven't been able to initiate and connect to it yet. Any links to manuals, installation guides, etc. would be most appreciated! Thanks! Corey

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HowTo: Install DCS Version 3 (Revison 5365) on Linux
by Guy 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi all, http://www.rho.cc/index.php/calendar-and-contact-server/59-calendar-setup/1… Simple step by step guide for installing the latest builds of darwin calendar and contact server on centos Linux. This guide which is based on my version 2 guide takes you all the way from fetching the code to compiling to running both calendar and contact server. I'm also writing a guide to the version 3 configuration files which are different from the version 2 ones.. I'll let you know when thats ready. Cheers, ---Guy

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IMIP settings
by Dustin Jackson 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

I don't know where this group stands on the email invitation front, but from my understanding of reading this list and several other websites 1) Calendar Server is able to send email invitations and receive replies (both to internal and external users) 2) Receiving External request is still not working (i.e. My wife has Groupwise at her office and I have to drap-and-drop invitations from my mail account into my caldav calendar...it doesn't notify me of a new request) I ran across this website and it looks promising. I just don't have the knowledge, skill or understanding of working with postfix/dovecot etc. http://www.doughellmann.com/articles/pythonmagazine/features/mailbox2ics/in… After reading this...the idea of replicating the user "com.apple.calendarserver" from apple's implementation makes since if the user has the proper permissions on the email side. My understanding from reading web page.... 1) com.apple.calendarserver would connect IMAP or POP 2) based on having read-access to all users mail folders...perform a general search looking for Caldav info related emails 3) parse the info and scan the UID database in Calendarserver based on the "CUADD field"... 4) deliver to /inbox Anybody want to comment or help?

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Problems during installation of Calendar Server
by JJ 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Dameon wrote: > I don't know if this is still the case, but > http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/iPhone states that an iPhone can't > connect directly to a CalDAV server, but must rather sync with another > instance of iCal on a full OSX install. This seems pretty > odd/daft/pointless/full-of-lock-in-badness to me, but may still be > the case. well, that would certainly be pretty odd/daft/pointless/full-of-lock- in-badness if it were true... (Sadly, even if Apple helps work on an opensource CalDAV server they are accused of lockin ;-) any iPhone running iPhone OS 3.x supports CalDAV accounts on the iPhone, just go to home screen - Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calendars - Add Account... then see the screenshots here: http://gallery.me.com/jjs/100201 http://gallery.me.com/jjs/100201/IMG_0390 1) choose Other (bottom option) http://gallery.me.com/jjs/100201/IMG_0389 2) Add CalDav Account (I know, I know, it's not the logical choice, but trust me...) http://gallery.me.com/jjs/100201/IMG_0391 3) Very simply enter server, user name/account and password http://gallery.me.com/jjs/100201/IMG_0388_2 4) The CalDAV account will look like this Under Advanced Settings, you will see a complicated server url like: http://<your_server>:8008/principals/users/ical but you won't need to type that in yourself grtz, JJ

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Problems during installation of Calendar Server
by Dameon Wagner 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:08:44AM -0500, Conrad Wasmer scribbled in "Re: [CalendarServer-users] Problems during installation of?Calendar Server": > On my iPhone, I connect to dcs wih the account server listed as just the > domain.com, and the account URL as: > http://domain.com:8008/principals/users/MyCalendar > > Hope that helps. Good to know. Do you have write access to the wiki? Sounds like it needs updating. Cheers. Dameon.

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Problems during installation of Calendar Server
by Eric Scheibler 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hello at all, for a few months I try to configure a debian server. After the initial parts of this server are running well I wanted to install a calendar server. I searched for a tool which offers the caldav protocoll cause I want to synchronize the calendars of my laptop (thunderbird with extension lightning) and the iPhone. So I found your project but I can't get it work - so I hope you can help me understanding, what I do wrong. In principle I followed this tutorial http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CalendarServer. I took the default settings and added the new calendar under lightning with this address: http://my_IP_address:8008/calendars/users/admin/calendar (the last "/" was not accepted by thunderbird so I deleted it), protocoll is caldav and the name is simply "calendar". After this I get the ok message and then I added a few new dates,. Now I wanted to add the iPhone at the same way, also took the address as shown above and gave the calendar the same name. The iPhone checked the account and printed no errors but then I open the calendar app then I found only the standard private calendar. For testing I opened the address in my browser - site was found and I could log in. I found a table with a couple of .ics files (for example 558faf35-e549-4425-8485-db5ba5b3bd59.ics). In each file I found one entry . Does anyone know why the iPhone can't connect? Is the output at the website correct? Did I set something wrong or forget some settings? Thank you for help Regards Eric

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