Calendar / event / sync / invites

jjlinux, 7 months ago

Get a domain (Cloudflare is where I get mine), open a free zoho account, verify, and that’s that. I have my whole family in our Zoho mail account, and no more Gmail in our home.

OrkneyKomodo, 7 months ago

Posteo are really good. You just need to download davx5 from FDroid to be able to add your calendar and contacts account. Then you’re away.

oh_gosh_its_osh, 7 months ago

I for now settled on mailbox.org, as it has everything I need + some other features like fileshare and video calls.

pootriarch, 7 months ago

if your threat model were ‘encrypt everything at rest’, invitations to people outside your own service would be tricky as they have to be machine-readable text in a specific format. i’m sure it’s possible but you’d have to be specific in looking for that as a feature.

my needs are more modest - don’t store email in GAFAM or particular regimes - and i use runbox, which is bog-standard except for being stored somewhere else, being paid, and having slightly more homely webapps. using ‘evolution’ on linux, a bog-standard email program that’s also a bit more homely than alternatives, invitations go out to whomever i choose and look normal. i make recurring events for myself all the time and remove individual occurrences. i’ve added on ical subscriptions for things like country holidays, which are the first thing you’ll notice missing when you leave outlook.

the mail’s just imap and the calendar’s just caldav. when you get into providers that don’t provide imap or caldav for (valid) security reasons, that’s when you’re more likely to get integration issues with regular people.

nothingcorporate, 7 months ago

I recommend Zoho. Good privacy policy and very affordable.

tetraodon, 7 months ago

posteo.de costs €1 per month and includes mail and a caldav-compatible calendar. It’s no frills. That’s what I use.

lefaucet, 7 months ago

This is what I use too and I love it. I use posteo.net domain when sharing my email address

Xirup, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

This is extremely interesting, can I sync my Tasks.org ToDos with Posteo?

Edit: From what I understand, Tasks.org uses CalDav for ToDos which Posteo supports, but (and it sounds silly) do I have checkboxes in my calendar or something like that to know if a certain task is done or some way to see the ToDos in the same way I see them in Tasks.org? I hope they don’t look like just an event in the calendar.

tetraodon, 7 months ago

As I use tasks.org myself, I pretty much guarantee that you can. :) However, Posteo has to my knowledge no todo web app so you’ll have to rely on your Phone or PC for ticking off stuff. But if you use the “Add to calendar” option you will definitely see them in the web calendar.

Longmactoppedup, 7 months ago

Have just signed up to give it a shot.

Silly question, but is there a way to create an event and invite people from an Android app? (Like outlook)

I’ve currently got k9, davx5. and simple calendar installed.

I created a test event in simple calendar and included my other email addresses in the attendees section. However no invite has been sent by they looks. I checked the posteo webmail page and I can see the event has been synced, but with no one invited.

tetraodon, 7 months ago

I also use K-9 and the default calendar and I haven’t found a way to do that. But it’s an Android limitation.

Perhaps something to look forward to when K-9 finally becomes Thunderbird for Android next month?

Longmactoppedup, 7 months ago

I hope they can marry IMAP and Caldav together in one app that can handle event invitations.

Not sure that I can live without that ability for my use case.

Guessing other providers with caldav will have the same issue for the time being.