[horde] Apple iCal and Kronolith

[Ryan Steele]

Vince,

For what it's worth, I abandoned Calendar Server because it had no iMIP
support.  It left it up to the client to do the processing.  Which
means, unless you have some way of loading the calendars from
Sunbird/Lightning/et. al., any iTIP invitations sent via email are only
going to be accepted on their local calendars.  I spoke with the
developers about it, and they agreed that the architecture needed to be
revisited, and plan to do so for the 2.x branch.  However, I was also
warned that that could be many months off, perhaps even a year or
longer.  My plan for our Mac users (our users are about 70% Mac) is to
publish their local calendar from iCal to Kronolith, and remotely
subscribe to everyone else's in a read-only fashion.  HTH.

Best Regards,
Ryan

--
Ryan Steele
Systems Administrator
The Archer Group



Vince LaMonica wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Ryan Steele wrote:
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> } The machines I tested were the most up to date versions of Leopard. 
> } And, I'd rather just have one server app managing the calendar sharing. 
> } But thanks for the input.
>
> Drat!! I thought Leopard did share properly. :( The features of iCal 
> server are identical to the FOSS Darwin Calendar Server [there are two 
> apple developers who work on that and source code is the same]:
>
> http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/ical.html
>
> What I am in the midst of setting up is teh Darwin Calendar Server and 
> using Lightning to work as clients [we have mostly Win2k PCs]. But fo the 
> 3 Mac users [myself included]. I wanted to use iCal. :(
>
> We also use Horde/et al, for when people are at home or want to use a 
> calendar [in fact, right now, the calendar system we use is 100% Horde 
> based]. I was thinking that I could host the calendars within Calendar 
> Server, and use Horde as a client like Lightning, Sunbird, etc. 
>
> But your post means that iCal won't in fact write to remote calenders that 
> it doesn't think it owns. :( I wonder how it will deal with multiple 
> calendars on the Calendar Server. ....hmmm... :( 
>
> Thanks very much for the info you posted...discouring, but....informative. 
>
> /vjl/
>
>