[horde] Use of Horde with dovecot and caldav server (davical)

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von David Brown <david at westcontrol.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask about the suitability  
> of Horde for a particular application, but if not I'd appreciate any  
> pointers.
>
>
> At the moment we have a Dovecot IMAP serving our mail system, along  
> with exim4 for outgoing email.  I'm very happy with Dovecot, and  
> have found it a fast and reliable imap server.  We have about 70  
> mail users, using either Thunderbird or Outlook on Windows, and a  
> few Thunderbird users on Linux, along with a number of mobile  
> telephones of various sorts.
>
> We are looking for a number of new features:
>
> - Web interface to mail.
> - Centralised and shared calendars.
> - Centralised and shared address books.
> - Message filtering on the server side (for out-of-office replies, etc.)
>
>
> I think Horde will give me that, or at least most of it, but I'm  
> looking for confirmation here.

You are correct.

> I'm hoping to keep Dovecot as the backend IMAP server, but I'm open  
> to alternatives.  I would like to use caldav for the calenders,  
> which will work fine with Thunderbird and (I think) most mobiles -  
> and I believe there are third-party add-ons for Outlook.  The most  
> likely caldav backend would be davical.

While Kronolith does support CalDAV as a calendar backend, it does  
*not* support CalDAV as the default backend. This means that you will  
still have a default SQL calendar for each user. You won't be able to  
manage the CalDAV calendars with Kronolith either, you need to use the  
davical interface for sharing etc.

> Am I looking in the right place here?  Or am I making life difficult  
> for myself with this setup, and should rather be using different  
> backend servers?  I am quite happy reading technical documents,  
> doing installations, configuring things from web interfaces or  
> command lines and config files as required, so I don't need a  
> hand-holding installation process.  I just need a few tips to make  
> sure I am heading in the right direction.

Alternatively you can use WebDAV instead of CalDAV (works with  
Lightning) and synchronize Outlook via SyncML. This way you could use  
the default SQL backend for Kronolith and don't need additional server  
software.

Jan.

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