On 2016-12-28 10:06, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
Cool. Let's see what people have working and what can be done.
The result I'm trying to get: Roundcube with calendars and contacts that are available through Caldav/Carddav protocols, so users can switch between RC and Thuderbird or "smartphone" clients with ease.
I tried with OwnCloud first, but the calendar refused to work correctly with some other clients and the mail app is very limited, so I switched back to DAViCal as a caldav and carddav backend and have installed RoundCube as a frontend for both email and carddav (through the plugin that you mentioned). I have not been so lucky with the caldav-plugin, and apparently it is not working anymore with newer versions of RoundCube (although I don't remember where I have read this).
This is my main concern, up maintaining and so on.
BTW, if you have tips on using DAViCal I'd be happy to see them (I'm using Postfix/virtual), you can send them here or off-list.
If you're using Debian, then the packages davical and libawl-php should be installed from the backports repo. It's extremely easy to follow the DAViCal installation guide and you'll be up and running in no time. Since this is not the place to discuss DAViCal, I'll send you my Apache virtualhost config privately. Combined with some DNS rules for autodiscovery, LDAP (and maybe Kerberos, which I haven't tried yet) for authentication and Let's Encrypt for SSL certificates, it's a robust platform. The only thing that is missing really is scheduling with external people, but a good calendaring client should be able to take care of this without the need for server-specific features.
Another person replied to me as well (off-list, and I think it's possible that the ML software doesn't "do it's thing properly" (reply-to uses the original sender and not the ML's address))
My reply to the mailing list was bounced - you received the email because you are automatically cc-ed by RoundCube.
It would seem that all we're missing is CalDav client support for at least a one-solution web front.
With every release, the Nextcloud platform is getting closer to reaching that one-solution webfront. I didn't try it (very) recently, but if they nail the 'remote calendar' and 'remote addressbook' functionality, you could just keep using DAViCal and your mailserver software as the backend and travel back and forth between RoundCube+InfCloud and NextCloud as the frontend until one or the other has prevailed.
Vincent