Evolution and shared calendars with Exchange

[Bruce Dawson]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:29, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> 
> "Bruce Dawson" writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 09:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> 
> >> Using this feature basically would mean that I'd have to manually send
> >> bits and pieces of my schedule to *everybody* who could conceivably
> >> schedule me for a meeting.  Hmm.  This doesn't seem too convenient.
> >> OTOH, it might be flexible enough for somebody who wants to let people
> >> outside of their organization know what their schedule will be like.
> > Err. Actually not. You publish your free/busy info to a web page, and
> > then people have that URL in their contact list (frequently in Outlook),
> > and then Outlook will use it to help in their scheduling. Evolution does
> > the same thing.
> > At least that's the way its supposed to work. I haven't been too
> > successful in getting people to update their contacts info for me to get
> > it to work broadly enough to be useful. Your mileage is likely to vary.
> How do I "publish my free/busy info to a web page", given that when I
> selected "Publish Free/Busy Information" in Evolution, I ended up
> sending *mail* like this:

There's two ways. (I chose the latter):
        * Send the info to an email address associated with your web
          server, and extract the info using procmail.
        * Install and use jical (http://jical.sourceforge.net/) -
          actually, I think I had to write a script that used ssh to
          transfer the updates to the web site whenever the calendar was
          updated.

> : From: "John Q. Public" <john at 127.0.0.1>
> : Subject: Calendar information
> : To: <contact1 at foo.org>, <BIFF at BITNET.NET>
> : Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:03:27 -0400
> : X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) 
> : 
> : Free/Busy information (Wed 08/18/2004 to Wed 09/29/2004)
> 
> [this bit is BASE64 encoded]
> 
> : BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> : CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
> : PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Calendar//EN
> : VERSION:2.0
> : METHOD:PUBLISH
> : BEGIN:VFREEBUSY
> : ORGANIZER;CN=John Q. Public:john at 127.0.0.1
> : DTSTART:20030813T000000Z
> : DTEND:2005094T000000Z
> : FREEBUSY;FBTYPE=BUSY:20050848T150000Z/20040818T160000Z
> : UID:3324322342342-12070-4040-1-1 at machine.somedomain.com
> : DTSTAMP:20130834T130237Z
> : END:VFREEBUSY
> : END:VCALENDAR
> : .
> 
> ...to the people that I chose to notify.  How does this mail get sent
> to a web page?

See above.
 
> Sorry if this is a stupid question.  In case you haven't guessed, I
> don't attend a lot of meetings and don't have a lot of experience with
> this stuff.

Not a stupid question; not covered in any meetings I've attended. You
probably have more experience than most others. 

To be honest, I forgot that it used email to update the free/busy info,
for some reason, I thought it used ftp/sftp, but I was probably
confusing that with jical.

> --kevin
> 
> PS In a seperate mail, Dan Coutu was kind enough to suggest that I
> check out the (now free) Ximian Connector.  In my copious spare time,
> maybe I'll do that  (any hints/tips/advice would be appreciated).

I would highly recommend doing that if its an option. I believe you need
the latest version of evolution to use the free Ximian Connector though.
Most distributions don't have that version included.

--Bruce
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