Friday, September 14, 2007

Stuck in Calendar Limbo

I'm currently in a world where I have my email on Exchange, a black berry and a Mac. It's not a fun place to be.

Entourage and Blackberries don't play nice together. Entourage deletes one of the header fields that BB Enterprise Server uses to track emails. Apparently Mail.App does too, as my bb doesn't know when I delete stuff. Thankfully, Thunderbird does work. So if I use Thunderbird, I can keep my Blackberry in sink.

Next up is my calendar. I typically use Google Calendar, but one of the main points of Exchange is being able to share calendars in the company. Since I switched to Thunderbird today, I thought I'd look at the calendar. There is apparently no way to sync Exchange at this point.

I did find imap calendar proxy. It looks interesting. The code didn't work for me.

After seeing it, I wonder how hard it would be to set up a IMAP to Webdav proxy server using something like mod_perl. I'd use authbasic to get the credentials and put the imap server as path info. Then any client could connect to it. Maybe I'll toy with this in my spare time.. I'm sure all the perl modules are there for vcalendar, imap and webdav..

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