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Guide to using evo's calendar publishing -- where to host

Asked by David Tansey

I would like to know what my options are for Evolution 2.6's new option to maintain an online calendar. Are there calendars you can setup online (like you can setup an email account with gmail, etc)? If I were to publish a calendar on my own website, what software would I use?

Apple promotes their .Mac accounts, which I believe includes iCal hosting. Are there any free-software centric equivalents?

Thanks!

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Bajtalan Hunor (cerebellum) said : 		#1

Hello,

You asked about Evolution program, here you can get everything, help, tools of it, just click here http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/!!!

In order to setup calendars you need a server which stores your address. At this page you will get info about this too.
You can setup every email account in evolution gmail too. Here you will find a wiki how to do it http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/41552-complete-guide-using-gmail-thunderbird-mozilla-mail-evolution-kmail.html

The wiki above works not just for Evolution but for Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, and Kmail too.

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Ariel Vardi (ariel-vardi) said : 		#2

I agree with David that this feature is very obscure and should be more intuitive in the evolution application itself.
From what I remember when I first used evolution, I saw the name of this option and it sounded really cool to me. However, when clicking on the option you have to give a server address, login, password, etc... And you don't really know what it refers to.

A short explanation text displayed inside the option window would be more than welcome in my opinion.

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David Tansey (djtansey) said : 		#3

Bajtalan,

I didn't mean basic evolution usage. I'm sorry if my post was not clear. I was very tired when I wrote that.

Ariel understood what I meant a little more clearly. I have been using GNU/Linux since before GNOME 1.0. I switched from balsa to evolution shortly after that. I am only saying this because I don't need basic instructions on how to use evolution. I mentioned gmail, etc because I wanted to know if there was a free "dotmac" alternative out there -- that hosted online calendars -- sort of how gmail's CL2 will (once it's released.)

The only link provided on the evo project's website is icalshare -- where you can share your ical. It doesn't host them.

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Dean Sas (dsas) said : 		#4

David, perhaps http://icalx.com/ is more like what you were thinking?

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Altought I have a Hula server, I did never understand how to use this online calendar in Evolution.

You should maybe fill a bug upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org

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