[Discuss] CalDav/CardDav servers?

[Dan Ritter]

David Kramer wrote: 
> I am trying to move the functionality off my home server onto my Ubuntu node
> at Linode.  I already have IMAP/SMTP moved over (thanks one again to those
> that helped). The website will be trivial.  The other big part is
> CardDav/CalDav.
> 
> Right now on my home server I am running an older version of OwnCloud
> (NextCloud is a fork of OwnCloud).  OwnCloud is a whole groupware thing with
> file repo, etc, but it also has a caldav/carddav server and client.  I'm
> thinking if I'm moving over to this linode server, running full groupware
> may be a little too resource heavy, since I really don't use the rest.  I
> *MAY* install NextCloud anyway.  Not sure.  If I DO install some sort of
> groupware, I would prefer to use one that does not have built in mail
> server, so I don't have to worry about dovecot/postfix conflicts.
> 
> The leading CalDav/CardDav with wide protocol support seem to be
> https://radicale.org/ and https://www.davical.org, and possibly
> http://sabre.io/
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with these or others?
> 
> Should I just install NextCloud or some other groupware without email?

radicale is nearly trivial to set up.

NextCloud can easily be set up without being an email server.
You just tell it how to talk to an existing one.

If you don't want the other features of NextCloud, radicale is a
better choice for just being a caldav/carddav server.

-dsr-