Configure CardDAV and CalDAV for eM Client

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This article applies to recent versions of SmarterMail Enterprise. View articles for SmarterMail 16.x and earlier.
CardDAV and CalDAV are extensions of the WebDAV protocol and can be used to sync your SmarterMail contacts and calendar with eM Client. 

NOTE: If you already have an IMAP account set up in eM Client, but want to add CalDAV and/or CardDAV accounts for calendars and/or contacts, the BEST thing to do is to remove your IMAP account and re-add it using eM Client's automated setup. That way, your account will be added using all supported protocols. Setting up accounts individually can lead to issues down the road. (E.g., Odd behaviors when sending meeting requests.) See the following article for a more efficient way of configuring your account: IMAP and WebDAV for eM Client.
 
Follow these steps to configure CardDAV and CalDAV in eM Client:
 
  1. Within eM Client go to the Tools menu and click Accounts then New account...
  2. Expand the Calendar section, choose CalDAV as the connection type, then click Next.
    • For the 'Account address URL' you'll want to log in to webmail with your account information and go to Settings > Account. On the WebDAV card you'll find the URL required for any calDAV or cardDAV connections. Copy that and paste it into this field. By default, it will be in this format: https://mail.your-domain.com/WebDAV.
    • Fill in the "User name" with your full email address, and also input your account password.
  3. Make any necessary modifications to the account's display name to be used within eM Client and click Next. Change it to something like "Work Calendar" or "Personal Calendar" -- whatever helps describe the calendar so you know what it is.
  4. Click Finish to complete the configuration.
NOTE: With an active license -- either for the Free Edition or the Pro Edition -- eM Client will automatically sync contacts using CardDAV when a CalDAV connection is made (and vice versa). Therefore, you should only need to complete these steps once.  
 
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Article ID: 2964, , Modified: 10/7/2024 at 2:23 PM

Feedback

This does not work. In SmarterMail up to version 13, it worked using the path http://mail.yourdomain.com/caldav . In SmarterMail 14 this no longer works. Using Mozilla Lightning and others. The previous article on how to sync with Thunderbird lightning has been removed -- BOOOO HISSSSS.
SuperTechie (7/17/2015 at 9:14 AM)
If these steps are not working to connect to eM Client for SM 14, please contact our support team for troubleshooting. They can help you to complete the connection.
Andrea Free (7/20/2015 at 8:50 AM)
this does not provide detail on how to sync ONLY the calendar. When adding the CalDav connection, both the calendar and contacts will appear in em client but what if you only need one (CALENDAR or CONTACTS). clarification needs to be provide to sync only ONE. In addition to this, clarification needs to be provide for adding an account that has shared calendars attached to it with permission.
digital.iway (12/19/2019 at 2:23 PM)
Please see the red NOTE in the article: eM Client will sync both when using either CardDAV or CalDAV. That is the way they have, apparently, designed eM Client to work with a webDAV protocol.
Derek Curtis (12/19/2019 at 4:07 PM)
SmarterMail Enterprise
Build 7619 (Nov 10, 2020)

works with Thunderbird 78.4.3 (32bit) as of Nov. 13 2020. using the builtin thunderbird calendar and webmail caldav options

follow above to get the link from webmail calendar (webdav link) copy it

open thunderbird and switch to calendar tab/view

left hands side right click and select new calendar

choose ON NETWORK

change to CalDAV option and in location paste the link you got earlier from webmail calendar

enter your username ( usually email address)

offline support if you want - press next

may ask you for password to webmail

give it name finish settings , click ok.. now will show calendar that was in webmail. you can also create

events from thundbird and it will sync back to webmail
Mike Perugini (11/13/2020 at 11:36 AM)

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