A client of a client has problems with Outlook and they are looking at moving to different software. A basic Postfix/Dovecot installation does everything they need for email but the issue is calendaring. They want "shared diaries" with Outlook clients and phones, I think mainly iPhone. What is involved in setting this up? Apache has built in WebDAV support, what else do I need? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
I use Owncloud (www.owncloud.org) for calendaring, with the bonus of Dropbox like function as well! Owncloud does webdav/caldav. It is PHP. I use it with sqlite3, which means no need to setup a sql server. I guess for light usage where heavy multiple users access is unlikey, sqlite3 could work ok. But if its heavy multiple user access you'd probably need Mysql or Postgres. Works well with Thunderbird/Lightening and also Evolution (so I imagine also Outlook!). Owncloud has Android and iphone clients. Cheers Daniel. On 20/01/15 14:17, Russell Coker wrote:
A client of a client has problems with Outlook and they are looking at moving to different software. A basic Postfix/Dovecot installation does everything they need for email but the issue is calendaring.
They want "shared diaries" with Outlook clients and phones, I think mainly iPhone.
What is involved in setting this up? Apache has built in WebDAV support, what else do I need?
Hi,
On 20 Jan 2015, at 5:17 am, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
What is involved in setting this up? Apache has built in WebDAV support, what else do I need?
You'd need Outlook to support CalDAV, which it doesn't. So, unless you run Exchange (or something that emulates Exchange), you're out of luck with calendaring completely. Therefore, you have to look at things like Zimbra, Kerio Connect, Open X-Change or Zarafa. And, last time I checked on each of those, the full Outlook integration requires paying some amount of money. Cheers, Avi
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