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

submitted 9 months ago by chriscrutch@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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."

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 2 points 9 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.