My set up works to SEND invitations through iCal only. I CANNOT RECEIVE invites through iCal - the only thing I can do is check my mail, then drag and drop calendar invites onto iCal - they never show up in iCal. I am not sure if that's because of my email set up (which is a little weird) or not, but I can't get that to work and would take any advice on that anyone can offer - and for that I am copying the calserver user list.

The accounts.xml file should be in conf/auth. If it is moved, you need to be sure that the location set for it in your plist file is updated - the plist file tells calendarserver the path and file name. As I recall, mine was originally accounts-test.xml, but I nixed the "test" part of that and had to update the name in the plist.

Here's the advice I got to finally get it up and running - in your accounts.xml file you have to add a user named com.apple.calendarserver and assign it a password. like so (you can generate your own GUID using the unix command [in terminal] uuidgen - just type it in and it generates a guid for you, then cut and paste it for the new user]):

<user>
   <uid>com.apple.calendarserver</uid>
   <guid>AEB68DD7-D2B8-4D4D-A574-2A4533DF36A4</guid>
   <password>SUPERSECRETPASSWORD</password>
   <name>Calendar Server iMIP injection</name>
   <disable-calendar />
</user>

And in your plist file, under AdminPrincipals you have to have the GUID listed for that new user, like the first one is below:

Also in the plist file, add the com.apple.calendarserver password as a field in the iMIP protocols settings:

<key>iMIP</key>
     <dict>
       <key>Enabled</key>
       <true/>
       <key>MailGatewayServer</key>
       <string>localhost</string>
       <key>MailGatewayPort</key>
       <integer>62310</integer>
       <key>Password</key>
       <string>SUPERSECRETPASSWORD</string>

If memory serves, that got me up and running for sending invites, but I still cannot RECEIVE invites through iCal or any other client.

On Mar 9, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Hideki Yamashita wrote:

Hi Conrad,

My name is Deks and I'm having a heck of a time trying to get iCal Server 2 on SL Server to send and receive notifications to external email addresses. I found the thread you started and thought "Wow, I'm not crazy!" Well, not yet anyway.

I am experiencing similar issues with iCal Server2 and thought I'd try and reach out for some advice. I'm going to start with the simple stuff that I've done in hopes of having a "Duh" moment where it's some small setting I've been overlooking.

Here's what I've got so far:

OS 10.6.2 Server

Services Running:

AFP, DHCP, Firewall, iCal, Mail, NAT, Open Directory (Master), and VPN (Site 2 Site)

I've followed the instructions in the documentation for setting up all of these services and I think I have things setup okay.

- The only thing that doesn't work with iCal is the external email notification function.
- I've created an email acct for the iCal server, (ical@servername.example.com) and can send and receive mail using Apple Mail on the same box that iCal Server is running.

After scouring thru the threads and my caldavd.plist file I noticed that I'm missing the accounts.xml file in /etc/caldavd/ Did you manually create this file?
Also, what's going on with com.apple.calendarserver under the XMPPNotifier key in caldavd.plist? Does this user need an email account?

I can send you my logs and plist file if you need more details.

Thanks for your time, it is greatly appreciated!

Deks

Hideki Yamashita | IT Manager
contact | Hideki@pyramind.com
415-896-9800 | x204

Conrad Wasmer

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