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

submitted 5 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] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've heard about radicale. But the "merging" and sync still happens on the client side of things (Android). I was hoping for some kind of dockerized backend service that can bring together all the calendars. And the only thing I'd have to do is go into the backend, connect FM and google (or any other calendar) and link that (dockerized) service account on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. Looks like some other people in this thread gave you some good info, I'll have to keep this in mind if I ever need to change my approach. Happy to hear you got a good answer!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

but yeah, setting up davx5 with my fastmail account gives me exactly what I need. I can use the google calendar app to have my FM calendar fully integrated.