[OGo-Users] Sunbird v0.5 PRE + yummy on Debian (or any other Win32 client)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>   Before I ask my questions I'd like to thank the developers for the 
> monumental effort that must have gone into getting this far.
>   My question : are there any open source Win32 clients, preferably 
> cross platform, capable of connecting (or at least userfriendly syncing) 
> to OpenGroupware?

Sunbird and Thunderbird both work with the current *DEVELOPMENT*
releases of OGo.  You have to use the nightly/trunk packages, preferably
after r1949.

>   I've installed the latest release I could find for my platform (the 
> yummy release on Debian).  I installed using the instructions for Debian 
> on the Plone (omitting the Funambol installation).  So far I've tried 
> these clients :
>   * v0.5  Sunbird/Lightning release candidate (just released) : I can 
> get iCal to work but not CalDAV/GroupDAV.   I suspect the URL I'm 
> using... though unfortunately Sunbird doesn't provide very useful error 
> messages.  I used the following : 
> http://{hostname}:21000/zidestore/so/{username}/Calendar/calendar.ics .  

This is the iCalendar URL, so of course it doesn't work for CalDAV.
Also your server is not completely configured, the :21000 indicates you
are connecting to the OGo daemon directly and not via Apache - don't do
this.

> I've also tried substituting "so" for "dav" in the URL, and later I 
> removed calendar.ics from the end to no avail.  I also tried closing and 
> reopening Sunbird after every URL change.  If there's documentation on 
> how to do this I can't seem to find it.

You need to use a DAV collection URL like -
http://{hostname}/zidestore/so/{username}/Calendar/
http://{hostname}/zidestore/so/{username}/Overview/
http://{hostname}/zidestore/so/{username}/public/Calendar/

CalDAV works with two caveats:  you have to 'fix' the timezone parsing,
and recurrence rules do not currently expand (Bug#1307).  Other than
that it seems pretty stable.

For Thunderbird install the GroupDAV plugin -
http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/thunderbird_groupdav_plugin.html

Bug#1307 -
http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1307

>   * Mulberry : I've installed this software, and am in the middle of 
> trying to get it working...  but the interface is quite complex, so I 
> thought I'd ask if anyone else has managed to get it working before I go 
> any further.

I tested this before CalDAV was working on the server side, so I can't
add anything here.  Since Mulberry smells like a dead project I haven't
tested again and don't have plans too.  Since Sunbird works and the
related TB has GroupDAV support....  seems like we have very close to a
complete lightweight client.