In light of the lack of a decent synching PIM calendar app for the N800, I have decided to investigate the CALDAV route.

There are plenty of O/S apps out there that support webdav or caldav (to varying degrees of fidelity) at present, and at least it would provide for a way of synchronising my N800 with my desktop calendar apps. Throw in a caldav-aware php client and I have web and local access with synching, all in one N800-sympathetic little bundle.

Here's my problem, I can't find a suitable caldav server app.

Sure, there's RSCDS (now DaviCal), but that requires postresql, and the likes of Zimbra/Bongo/Horde and so on are server apps rather than web apps. Even the mod_caldav apache module over at sourceforge appears to have stalled

Ideally I'd like an implementation that uses mysql as its backend, with php | perl | python at the front. Can anyone point me in the direction of a suitable candidate?

I really have tried, both here and long hours (and I do mean hours) searching google/caldav.org/other places and haven't found anything.

I don't know how you feel about java, but there is the Cosmo/Chandler server project: http://chandlerproject.org/Developer...ChandlerServer

Also, there's Bedework: http://www.bedework.org/bedework/

This is just results from a quick raid on freshmeat.net so you might have already seen these. I'm also interested in this topic, so tell me if you make an progress.

-John

How about egroupware.org? If you want to test it, I have a build script and necessary packages here. The script builds qmail, courier, exmlm, vpopmail, qmailadmin etc as well, so you end up with a complete groupware server which beats the crap out of Zimbra if you ask me. You need to build on a clean Ubuntu server install (you could vmware it). If you can wait a couple of weeks, we will have finished testing the Centos/Redhat version. PM me if you need help with the install.

I'm looking for something like that too.

I will try http://www.bedework.org/bedework/ the next days.

http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav.../projects.html There's a list of other caldav servers.

Thanks for all of your input. I have been doing a lot of study on most of those and while I lean towards Cosmo/Chandler, with egroupware coming in a close second (personal opinion only), they don't meet one of my most important criteria, and that is that they should be installable on a standard webhost, without shell access.

I have a couple of servers at home (care of an excellent "buy a server for £99" at Dell) and I've got Ubuntu on one and debian on the other, so I may have to admit defeat and set this up at home (I may be coming to you guys for a spot of help), but my holy grail is to be able to pop all the fancy stuff up on bog standard webspace and subscribe with my various clients.

While I can see the point of using Postgresql, I'm really disappointed that DavIcal doesn't support MySQL as that's what most of the web hosts out there provide as standard.

Hmm, as DavIcal is open-source, I wonder if there's any mileage in me taking a look at the code and seeing how difficult it would be to port.

Thanks again for your input and suggestions - I may yet end up at the "run a server at home" milestone.

On Edit: I won't use google calendar or zimbra (now owned by yahoo) because of their actions in China, hence my search for an 'independent' solution.

Well I ended up using webdav. I followed this tutorial: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...42&postcount=1

I have an Ubuntu root server so I can now sync my N800 where ever I have Internet You can sync the webdav share by putting the http://... url in adress select publish and fill in the username and the password. Really easy.

Thanks Noneus!

What PIM software are you using?