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As of Lightning/Sunbird version 0.3, there are three supported remote calendar protocols:
{{Archive}}Zimbra has been working on CalDav in our mainline code base.  Goal is to test/release this once iCal has a released version of their support.  So longer term CalDav may be better (I know this is different to what we've said in the past since with iCal there is a mainstream client that will have support.  We'd love to have Lightning/Sunbird use this support as well. --[[User:KevinH|KevinH]] 10:50, 20 February 2007 (CST)


1. WCAP (Sun ONE's XML/RPC calendar protocol), which is implemented in Sunbird's mozilla/calendar/providers/wcap sources.  It uses plain-old GET and POST commands, and its online specification is at [http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6416-10/pr9WCAP.html Overview] and [http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6416-10/pr10WCAP.html Commands].
How can I get involved to help develop this feature?
--[[User:michael-fig|michael-fig]] 19:00, 27 March 2007 (CST)


2. iCalendar, which uses the PUT method to send the complete updated calendar to the same Zimbra URL.  This could get very inefficient with large calendars, and then Zimbra would have to delete events from the calendar folder to make sure there aren't duplicates.  It also uses a PROPFIND, which is rejected by Tomcat.


3. CalDAV, which uses the REPORT method to get a listing of calendar entries, and PUT to update them (neither of which are supported by Tomcat).  ''[Edit: I don't think this is true.  "Cosmo is a CALDAV server, based on tomcat."  Indicates Tomcat has everything needed to do CalDAV.]''
This is not a connector but current [[Thunderbird & Lightning]] setups


michael-fig writes:
Additionally, there is now documentation for configuring Thunderbird and Lightning here: [[Accessing Zimbra Collaboration Suite with Thunderbird]]. --[[User:Cfremon|Cfremon]] 15:19, 10 October 2007 (PDT)
It looks like WCAP is the way to go.  It's apparently more work to add REPORT and PUT to Tomcat than to implement the WCAP interface. So, I'm writing a servlet to implement WCAP.  I'll keep updating this page with progress.


You can download the project files from [http://michael.fig.org/src/zimbra-wcap/ my site].
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2006-10-20 - Took an all-night crash course in Java and Tomcat.  Now the http://ZIMBRA-SERVER/service/wcap URL is responding to requests.

Latest revision as of 23:02, 23 March 2015

Zimbra has been working on CalDav in our mainline code base. Goal is to test/release this once iCal has a released version of their support. So longer term CalDav may be better (I know this is different to what we've said in the past since with iCal there is a mainstream client that will have support. We'd love to have Lightning/Sunbird use this support as well. --KevinH 10:50, 20 February 2007 (CST)

How can I get involved to help develop this feature? --michael-fig 19:00, 27 March 2007 (CST)


This is not a connector but current Thunderbird & Lightning setups

Additionally, there is now documentation for configuring Thunderbird and Lightning here: Accessing Zimbra Collaboration Suite with Thunderbird. --Cfremon 15:19, 10 October 2007 (PDT)

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