[Gllug] CalDAV or ICS calendar & contacts server wtih Android & Linux server

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:52:31AM +0100, gvim wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying an Android phone but want to be able to sync
> with a calendar & contacts server on my Linux server. The calendar
> server must also be compatible with Thunderbird for syncing with my
> desktop and laptop. Has anyone had any experience with this kind of
> setup. Looking into Darwin Streaming Server with CalDAV sync at the
> moment.

The most limiting device is probably the Android phone.

Most can usually handle syncing with Google or Microsoft ActiveSync
(part of Exchange). There is an ActiveSync server for Linux called
"Z-Push", which we use a work.

It can handle multiple backends, such as LDAP for contacts, CalDAV for
calendars, IMAP for email, etc. Then for the servers on Linux we use
OpenLDAP for LDAP, and Davical for CalvDAV.

The main problem has been with people inboxes of about 10,000+ emails,
where it can become a memory hug (over an 100MB of RAM per person).
Of course, the other problem is that it is written in PHP.
;)

It's part of the Zarafa system, but is open source and can be run on
it's own:
	http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/


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