I’m trying to de-Google my life and self-host more. One tricky point with me is calendaring. I can get a CalDav server running and syncing with my Android phone without much hassle, but I haven’t yet found a server or client that can send e-mail reminders for events, rather than just pop-up notifications.
I’ve been told to try Nextcloud. I tried installing it but it’s overkill for me, and I don’t want to deal with setting up a domain. Surely there can’t be exactly one CalDav option that can send email reminders. But I’ve never heard anyone say anything other than “Nextcloud.”
I use SoGo for that.
Cal and task sync. Card dav, Email und calendar in one neat web interface
This looks quite promising, thank you! I’ll be trying that.
I know you said “no nextcloud”, but I often see posts from people who say nextcloud was overkill for them, but they don’t realise that almost every component of nextcloud can be uninstalled if you don’t want it. It can be pretty barebones if you want it to be.
I don’t see how you’re going to get away from the domain requirement, though, unless you’re just going to connect to your raw IP address? (And if you are, I didn’t think that nextcloud required a domain?)
Sorry I can’t be more helpful with a different solution, but hopefully someone out there knows of something that would suit your needs.
My raw IP wouldn’t help, my ISP has me behind CGNAT. I can set up a CalDav server and sync it with Tailscale, but can’t do that for Nextcloud.
You can bypass CGNAT easily. Look here. I sync contacts, calender, tasks, everything from Nextcloud.
I will look into that, thank you.
Why can’t you sync NC over Tailscale?
Well I may be missing something about how Nextcloud works because I never really fully got it set up. Once I got Nextcloud set up on my domain, how would I go about getting my domain pointed to a Tailscale address?
You don’t need to get it set up with your domain. All you need is the IP address of the machine it’s running on; either local or Tailscale address. Just type it into the browser URL bar. I.e. http://192.168.0.1:8080/ is a valid URL.
Now, obviously you’d want to have the ability to do things like type a human readable domain name and have SSL certificates but they’re not technically necessary. Until I found the time to set up my reverse proxy, I used my Paperless using a bookmark to the IP address and port.
Pointing your domain at a Tailscale address is pretty simple, you just need to add an A record wherever your domain’s DNS zone is configured which points at the IP address (e.g. 100.107.42.69).
If you don’t find anything, I suggest you go the automation route with Active Pieces or N8N
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol NAT Network Address Translation SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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have you looked at awesome-selfhosted at all?
Yeah, I’ve tried most of the servers listed there. None of the servers have email functionality (beyond invitations). I haven’t found a client that does either. I understand that Thunderbird used to have it, but doesn’t any more. Strange that an email application can’t email. Hahahaha.
After a lot of alternatives I’m just using Google calendar again, nothing else so far works as easily and syncs everything to my devices properly.
If I ever come up with something, I’ll let you know.
I checked out the documentation for that, I can’t find in there anywhere anything about e-mail reminders for events. Additionally, it looks like setting up recurring events (like monthly bills or repeated appointments) isn’t possible. It seems more like a business booking solution than a personal calendaring thing. Thank you though!
Sorry I was remembering wrong
Sending emails is too old, and requires a full online app to send you the reminder. Only google or other big corps support this because a bounced email is retried many hours later… Heck, just the sending might suppose delays. The current calendar solutions give push notifications to clients (e.g. PC or phone)
Counterpoint: if you system is configured such that the mere act of trying to send an email results in serious delays and regular bounces, you’re doing email wrong. Even push notifications may require third party routing through Google, Apple, or similar to get to the core OS in some cases.
Yes, I recognize that hosting an SMTP server is difficult these days and can’t always be done at home due to IP restrictions. But that doesn’t mean you have to have an email server at home. I have a third party email on my domain and I can dispatch SMTP which arrives at expected non-delayed times even to Google and Microsoft accounts.
I honestly wish more software would simply speak to an SMTP server of choice rather than defaulting to just hitting the CLI mail send or attempting a direct SMTP connection.
