Sync your iPhone Calendar with Zimbra
January 31st, 2011
This is a two-part how-to for iPhone and Android users on syncing your Zimbra calendar with your iPhone calendar (part one) or your Android Smartphone (part two).
Steve Jobs really has a vision for how things should work and after adding the calendar to an iPhone and then trying to do the same with Android I have to give props to Apple. First of all CalDAV support is built into iOS on the iPhone (make sure yours is up to date by connecting your phone to your computer and syncing in iTunes) and it just worked – I didn’t have to google the settings or experiment with it. I now have two-way communication between my iPhone’s calendar and Zimbra’s calendar and changes show up fairly quickly on either device.
Here are the steps on your iPhone (using iOS 4.1):
- From your iPhone, tap Settings
- Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- Tap Add Account, then tap Other, then under Calendars tap Add CalDav Account
- For Server enter m.callcarp.com
- For User Name enter your Zimbra username. For example, if your email address is dagent@callcarpenter.com then your username is dagent.
- For Password enter your Zimbra email password then tap Next in the upper right corner
- When it says Cannot Connect Using SSL, etc. tap Continue.
Click Advanced and make sure the port number is 80 – change it to 80 if it is any other number if you still get an error. I’ve added and re-added the account while making this guide and it set the port to 8080 one time – don’t ask me why.
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Now, on your computer go to http://m.callcarp.com (did you know that’s the shortcut to log into Zimbra?) and log into your email.
Once in your email, click on the Preferences tab and then click on Calendar along the left side of the screen
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Make sure Enable delegation for Apple iCal CalDAV client is checked. Click Save in the upper left.
Your iPhone will now sync both ways to the Zimbra server meaning any calendar items added to Zimbra will show up on your iPhone and any calendar items you add to your iPhone will show up in Zimbra’s calendar.
You can adjust the sync interval and how much of your calendar to sync on your iPhone (like, Events 2 weeks back, 6 months back, All Events) by tapping Settings, Mail, Contacts, Calendars and scrolling down to the Calendars section. Tapping Default Calendar lets you choose your Zimbra calendar as the default for your iPhone.
Next, Android…
Posted by: 
George Christodoulou
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