Re: Public calendars and addressbooks (was RE: Backup compaction optimization in a block-level replication environment)

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, at 4:41 PM, Deborah Pickett wrote:
> > I'm curious how these are working for you, or what sort of configuration
> > and workflows leads to having #calendars and #addressbooks as top-level
> > shared mailboxes?  I've only very recently started learning how our DAV bits
> > work (they have previously been black-boxes for me), and so far have only
> > seen these existing in user accounts.  Maybe this is a separate thread
> > though.
> 
> We used to use public calendars in Exchange (they call them Public Folders)
> for, among other things, a read-only catalogue of who in the office is on
> leave on any given day.  Some of our branch offices also had shared contact
> lists for phone numbers likely to be needed by all people at the local site
> (the local takeaway, the local hardware store, the local clinic...).
> Exchange public folders are almost an exact analogue to shared-namespace
> mailboxes in Cyrus.
> 
> Once I learned the undocumented magic for creating public calendars and
> address books in Cyrus (@karagian on Github posted it:
> https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2373#issuecomment-415738943)
> it's worked very well.  My Outlook users use the free Caldav Synchronizer
> plugin (https://caldavsynchronizer.org/)  to sync selected address books and
> calendars to their clients.  I have a Perl script that queries our Active
> Directory server over LDAP to set ACLs on the folders.

That's interesting, thanks!
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