Re: [Evolution] Remote Calendar store

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 21:49, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I fired up the new beta of Evolution, and I was at first glance very
> excited to see that you can change the default folder to be a remote
> calendar.  My first thought was, "Wow, did they somehow make it so you
> can store calendar data in an IMAP store?  That's too cool."
>
> Of course, this isn't the case.  But a thought occured to me: why not? 
> If we don't want to create a specialized server for
> contacts/tasks/calendaring, would it be possible to layer those things
> on top of IMAP, so at least it would be possible to keep my 3 different
> copies of Evo synchronized?  Is something like that feasible?
using IMAP for calendar folders has been found to be not a good a idea,
as far as I can see. So, a simpler solution (and cleaner) would be to
add support for publishing/subscribing to remote calendars via
HTTP/FTP/whatever.

See bug http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30297

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>