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Originally Posted by ewilen  Entourage uses WebDAV (an extension of http) to communicate with an Exchange server, basically via the same portion of Exchange that provides their "Outlook Web Access" web interface. So I don't think your proposal will work, technically. |
Thanks for the correction in my assumption!
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What I think could work would be to provide the bare WebDAV functionality (not sure if Zimbra does this outside of CalDAV, which is an extended special version of WebDAV) and emulate the data format that Exchange uses to share calendar data with Entourage. I believe it's written in XML; I came across someone out there at one point who'd written something to parse the Exchange output and read it into iCal. So to provide Entourage support, you'd do the same thing, sort of in reverse.
If Zimbra included this it would indeed be welcome.
EDIT: Here's the info I found on "scraping" Exchange's WebDAV interface for calendar data:
Peter Krantz: Exporting Exchange calendars to Apple iCal over HTTP and WebDAV
Ryan Hadley: Goodbye Outlook
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It would be very nice if they could do the whole thing instead of just calendars. It would be better by far to beat Microsoft into supporting CalDAV, but I expect I'll have better luck squawking at Zimbra than I will squawking at Microsoft.
Then again, I've seen a lot of folks yelling about the lack of inclusion of CalDAV functionality in Entourage 2008 (particularly since, IIRC, that functionality is present in Outlook 2007).
Here's hoping something happens somehow, as I'd really like to be able to use Entourage for my calendar, and I'm not going to be able to do that until some sort of reliable synchronization conduit that supports multiple calendars is developed for Zimbra -> Entourage.