CalDAV for Exchange???

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CalDAV for Exchange???

Dear apple users,

Anyone seen a gateway or script of some kind that interfaces calendar entries between iCal and Exchange servers? See a lot on the internet and it looked promising on the sourceforge.net Davmail gateway, but this application cannot run on the same machine as the Exchange server....

Would really like to get rid of Entourage to sync my calendar entries between iphone and ical.

Any suggestions?

Cheers
Paul

iMac 24, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 14, 2009 10:58 AM

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mguessan

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Feb 18, 2009 10:45 PM in response to Servlan

Glad to hear you found DavMail promising 🙂

I can't see why you could not run DavMail on the Exchange server directly, you just have to run it in server mode, see
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/serversetup.html

Those instructions are for Unix, you would have to register DavMail as a windows service.

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Servlan Author

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Feb 19, 2009 5:11 AM in response to mguessan

Thanks for the reply... I hope to use this, but the instructions point to run DavMail on the imac rather than on the Exchange server itself. Is there a way to configure the ports on the DavMail Gateway application run on a Windows platform?

Cheers
Paul.

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mguessan

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Feb 19, 2009 3:32 PM in response to Servlan

Sure, on windows you get by default an icon tray with a GUI to change settings, although on the server you will want to run davmail in server mode.

=> install davmail with standard setup
=> launch "davmail.exe davmail.properties"
=> adjust settings
=> stop davmail
=> edit davmail.properties, set
davmail.server=true
davmail.allowRemote=true
=> launch "davmail.exe davmail.properties"

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Servlan Author

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Feb 20, 2009 7:47 AM in response to mguessan

Hi - thanks for the assistance.

I created the davmail.properties file in d:\program files\davmail and run this with davmail.exe yet when I launch this the taskbar says... DavMail Gateway, unable to create server socket: the specified port is in use by another process. My guessing is that as Im running Davmail on the same server as the exchange box, this is conflicting with Port 25 etc????

Cheers
Paul

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Servlan Author

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Feb 20, 2009 8:38 AM in response to Servlan

Dear Sir,

I have nearly got it working...I think??? I could not set this up on the server properties as per my last post - but I think this is because the CalDav port is set to 80 and my IIS is also set to 80 - hence why this is conflicting.

When I ran DavMail manually, I changed this to port 81 and it now runs. However, when I try and setup a CalDav account on iCal it gets so far and get on the Server: Unsupported request: Propfind/exchange depth: 0. On iCal I get account information not found - no calendar home error / code 1.

Im guessing this is a generic error which can mean a whole bunch of things, but I know Im close...

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
Paul

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Mar 25, 2009 12:42 AM in response to Servlan

I'm using this successfully with Thunderbird 3.0b2 and Lightning nightly build.

But I got the same erros in iCal. Didn't manage to workaround yet.

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Servlan Author

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Mar 30, 2009 11:04 AM in response to Servlan

Have found another product that interfaces much better with Exchange but the downside is that you have to use Exchange 2007.

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Pasamio

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Apr 27, 2009 9:26 PM in response to Servlan

What is the name of the product that you found as an alternative? I'm presently struggling with the following weird error message generated by Evolution (Unsupported request: REPORT /users/user%40domain/calendar/ Depth: 1) so I'd be interested in alternatives.

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Jimmm

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May 14, 2009 2:46 PM in response to Pasamio

Can't answer for the previous poster definitively, but my guess is SyncEm:

http://www.syncem.com/

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