[Discuss] CalDav/CardDav servers?

[David Kramer]

Following up on this, I ended up going with DaviCal.  My main decision 
points were it supported more columns on that compatibility matrix, 
stored data in a real DB I can inspect and back up, and is actively 
being worked on (although the originator of the project left).  
Installation was mostly smooth.  DB creation script failed the first 
time but directions said how to roll back and try again which is great.  
With some googling I got it running over SSL on a non standard port 
pretty easily.  DaviCal is pretty flexible with lots of configuration 
options.

I was able to import my calendars and address book, and was able to set 
up a shared family calendar and get it set up on my wife's IOS phone. 
I'm using the Lighting plugin for Thunderbird as the CalDav client and 
the CardBook plugin as a CarDav client.

The only downside of this solution is OwnCloud (and other solutions) 
provided a web client for Caldav/Carddav and this is very specifically 
the server side only to keep the project scope manageable.  This is 
pretty minor though. It runs on Postgres and I'm more familiar (and was 
already using) MySQL, but I got past that with little hassle too.

I was able to adapt my database backup script to cover postgres too.

On 8/14/19 3:32 AM, 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?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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