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.”
Try Baikal, it’s a pretty lightweight CalDAV server!
Any client I use it with supports notifications, however it should also be able to send emails for you (e.g. Its scheduling feature).
I had Baikal running for a while, there’s no notifications on the server side.
Scheduling is not the same as event notifications. At that link you provided, that refers to sending email invitations to participants in an event. Those get sent immediately at the event’s creation, it’s kind of an RSVP system.
I need a client that can send an email at a specified time before the event starts.
You are right. I’ve some experience with tweaking Baikal’s code, maybe you can implement that notifications feature yourself? The code isn’t perfect and could be simplified… but it doesn’t seem very hard to implement what you’re looking for given their architecture.
Any coding is well above my skill level. Thank you, though.
Oh if you mean event notifications check out Calengoo. It has versions for all major platforms.
I may have to try that one. Just looking on the website, it doesn’t explicitly say there’s the possibility of emailed event reminders, but it does say that there’s an integrated client so it seems like there’s a possibility. Thank you!
