Self-hosted calendar that isn't Nextcloud and can send e-mail reminders, not just pop-ups

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• sobriquet@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can bypass CGNAT easily. Look here. I sync contacts, calender, tasks, everything from Nextcloud.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why can’t you sync NC over Tailscale?

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• mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  have you looked at awesome-selfhosted at all?

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  • rentar42@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was about to mention that ;-) Whenever I find myself looking for software in an area where I don't know any of the "competitors", I'll look for the awesome-* lists. At the very least they are always a good starting point.

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh that rules! Thanks for sharing that

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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
  IP	Internet Protocol
  NAT	Network Address Translation

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• derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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).

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh if you mean event notifications check out Calengoo. It has versions for all major platforms.

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    • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 bit it doesn’t seem very hard to implement what you’re looking for given their architecture.

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• Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nextcloud is definitely overkill if you’re just after a calendar / reminder.

  I ditched Nextcloud and went for radicale, but I’ve not looked into sending emails as reminders (I want less emails not more)

  Is this for adhoc events like “visit the dentist”, or are you trying to automate a regular event like “put out the recycling”?

  The latter could be done with cron and sendmail for example

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, the email reminders I’d like would be for both types of events (one-offs and recurring ones). And although it would work, I guess, I’m not crawling around in crontab every time I need to add something to my schedule.

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• anzo@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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)

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s no better solution to a problem than, “your problem is wrong.”

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  • computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I ever come up with something, I’ll let you know.

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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could set up NodeRed and make your own notification flow with a caldav/iCal input and a email or chat service output.

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It looks like I’m gonna call that my “second to last resort.” I’m not a programmer or developer of any kind, and that looks pretty intense for me.

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It uses “visual programming” so it is actually quite easy to do (as long as you use the pre-made modules) even without any prior knowledge. And once you set that up you will likely find many other neat ways to use it 😊

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• Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use SoGo for that.

  Cal and task sync. Card dav, Email und calendar in one neat web interface

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This looks quite promising, thank you! I’ll be trying that.

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cal.com?

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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!

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry I was remembering wrong

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• eneff@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  EteSync?

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  • chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless I’m missing something, there doesn’t seem to be any functionality for email reminders either on the server side or client side for them. I tried Etesync once, although it has been a bit.

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you don’t find anything, I suggest you go the automation route with Active Pieces or N8N

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• fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No idea how CalDav runs, but if it’s a server, it should be able to run generic scripts, no? Once you are running a generic script, writing one that sends emails though smtp should be possible. Idk.

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