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Help me understand contacts, calendar and caldav/cardav (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Google for the last decade and am owly moving away from it.

I'm on Fastmail (FM) right now. While I love their mailservice, the calendar and contacts integration is okey-ish, compared to Google.

Right now, my contacts are scattered across these services. New contacts that I add on my Android phone, are obviously not available on FM, and vice versa.

Therefore I'd like to setup a self hosted solution to manage contacts/calendars on a centralized place.

But right now, I can't seem to wrap my head around this topic. I often see caldav/cardav mentioned, but don't know how exactly they are related.

FYI: I'm a software developer, and I already host a bunch of services behind a reverse proxy.

Example scenarios:

Install a full-featured calendar app (mobile, desktop, web) -> connect to my service
Someone sends me a calendar invite to FM -> sync to my service
I add a new contact on my Android phone -> sync to my service (make it visible in FM)
I add a new contact in FM -> sync to my service
I send a new calendar invite via FM -> sync to my service
Bonus I send a new calendar invite via App, and it get's sent via FM to the recepients.

So my question is what self-hosted solutions (besides Nextclowd) are out there that would allow me to accomplish that?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Fastmail looks like they have CalDAV and CardDAV support (https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Server-names-and-ports). If you actually want to use their contacts and calendar, why do you want to host another yourself? Two-way sync sounds like a pain.

You just need to connect your devices to it. Unfortunately Google thinks PIM sync is not worthwhile to have on Android unless you use their service, so you'll need some extra apps. I used DAVx5 (it's free if you get it from F-Droid), Tasks.org and OneCalendar in the past for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aaah... I think I got it now.

Caldav/cardav are the standard protocols used in this case. So every sane provider uses them. Davx5 creates a local account and interacts with the android apps (like google calendar) by pulling/pushing new events from and to the server respectively.

So, I can keep using google calendar, with my FM account instead of google 👍 noice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Right, exactly.

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