Re: [Evolution] Personal Calendar Server

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

The PCS isn't a separate server in that respect.  It's the calendar
component of the evolution data server.  The addressbook component is
known as the PAS (Personal Addressbook Server).

Chris

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 20:00 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have multiple desktop systems on which I want to read my Email and
> keep both my TODO-list and Calendar. Most of my colleagues use, of
> course, Microsoft Outlook combined with Microsoft Exchange. Because we
> do have a IMAP gateway I prefer not to use the Ximian Connector plugin
> and go for the IMAP protocol. Of course I cannot use the TODO and
> Calendar features natively with Evolution. All my groupware clients (on
> all desktop hosts) are Evolution, so it's okay that I will be using a
> Linux-only protocol.
>
> I found out that Evolution uses something called it's Personal Calendar
> Server (PCS) to access both it's Calendar and TODO-list.
>
> My question now is, how do I set-up such a Personal Calendar Server on a
> specific host (I prefer with no Gtk+ or GNOME libs installed, I do have
> root on some server, but this server has no X installed for this is not
> needed anyway). Once the Personal Calendar Server is up and running I
> would like to migrate all my hosts to use that URI, so also how do I
> set-up (of configure) my Evolution-running hosts to use that central
> URI, sharing the Calendar and TODO list.
>
> Please do answer with a RTFM-like answer, in case you do I can reply
> that there probably is no such "FM" available online at this moment,
> making you look like an idiot instead of you me with that RTFM-like
> answer :-).
>
> Oh, if there is such a manual .. replying a pointer to it would both
> make the google-news archives and me smarter about this "Personal
> Calendar Server"-thingy. It looks like PCS is one of the most hidden
> features in the OpenSource world, at this moment.
>
> I could, of course, also install a OpenGroupware.org server. But
> somewhere in my head a little voice is telling me that this is a bit
> overkill for the Calendar and TODO-list of only one (or two, three)
> person(s). 
>
>
> Oh, I would also like to store my personal contact list on that same
> server, but I guess that I can use ldap for that. Not that I ever
> succeeded in configuring slapd on Debian Woody (and I did tried it a few
> times in a hurry), but I guess someday I will. Or maybe, if somebody has
> some good pointers to information about putting up a ldap-server with
> authentication on which I can host my personal contact-list..reply :)
>
> Thanks..
>
> -- 
> Philip Van Hoof, Software Developer @ Cronos
> home: me at freax dot org
> work: Philip dot VanHoof at cronos dot be
> http://www.freax.be, http://www.freax.eu.org
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