Re: [Evolution] Sharing calendar info w/o Exchange

[Ronald Kuetemeier <ronald kuetemeier com>]

There is an easier way, if you are not afraid to compile your own...
I have a small daemon which listens to calendar events and publishes
FREE_BUSY every time the calendar has changed. I use davfs to write it
automatically to a web server, other dav/ftp/http tools can be used for
manual transfer (cron ....).
Anyway I was working on a tool without the use of davfs but got an eye
infection and since than have been in recover mode for everything else.
If you need an automated tool let me know and I will send you the code.

Ronald




On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:42, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 02:59, Anders Näslund wrote:
> > Anyone care to describe the trick to publish?
> >
> > If I do that in 1.0.8 all I get is a ics file that I can send to
> > someone..
>
> Hopefully, Evolution will have the ability to publish to ftp/http in the
> post 1.4 timeframe..... but for now:
>
> On the server that will serve the free/busy information, create a user
> account to receive the email Evolution sends for publishing the
> free/busy information (calendar view: Tools->Publish Free/Busy
> Information).  Setup a mail filtering tool on that account that will
> save the body of the email in the proper location for retrieval by
> others.  For example, if it receives a free/busy email from a b c, it
> saves the body of the email to <serverpath>/a.vfb.
>
> Currently, I don't have an auto filter set up, I send it, then login to
> the server and manually save the free/busy email to the file desired. 
> Then the Outlook users (my wife) can see it when scheduling a meeting,
> by adding that http path to the "Free/Busy URL" in the Contact
> representing me.
>
> For outlook users, you just need to specify in the options the ftp or
> http publishing path (can specify username and password) for free/busy
> information, and it will publish it periodically.  You need the "Web
> Publishing Wizard" installed for this to work - and the server
> configured to accept the connection.
>
> NOTE: Currently there is a bug open on Evolution's ability to parse
> free/busy information retrieved from a http server.
>
> NOTE2: Outlook has the ability to have a dynamic path (using %USER% - or
> something like that) on a specified server, so you could have everyone
> publish their free/busy information under their own home directory on a
> web server.
>
>
> TTFN, 
> Lonnie Borntreger
>
>
>
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