Zero Point Five Preferences
To use the sharing features of Chandler revision 0.5, you will need accounts on IMAP, SMTP, and WebDAV servers. The WebDAV server acts as an intermediary for Items, while email is used to send and receive invitations to share data.
To set the preferences, select
File->Accounts. You will then have a choice of setting the IMAP, SMTP, and WebDAV servers.
Email Account
For IMAP and SMTP preferences, you should be able to look at the preferences in your normal email program to figure out what the settings should be in Chandler. For "Full Name" in the IMAP preferences, use your own full name, e.g. "Mabel Garcia".
WebDAV Account
You will also need a WebDAV account to enable sharing Chandler collections.
By default a WebDAV account on the OSAF WebDAV server is selected for you. For 0.5, two other free out-of-the-box options are also being made availble from Xythos Software Inc. and Venue Communications. We are using these are "public" third-party commercial WebDAV servers to demonstrate that OSAF is not doing anything out of the ordinary to its WebDAV server in order to support Chandler sharing.
- The Venue Communications server is a demo of their WebDAV hosting service where you can subscribe to to share Macintosh iCa calendars. See Venue Communications for more information.
- The Xythos server is a demo of their Sharemation WebDAV server product. You can see more information about Sharemation at: Sharemation
If you have your own WebDAV server, you can add this account by clicking on the "Create new account" drop-down and selecting the WebDAV option.
See the Apache Foundation's
ModDAV project for more information on setting up your own webDAV server.
e.g
For a Sharemation account, for
Server, type in
- http://www.sharemation.com
For
Path, type in
IMPORTANT: Do not put a slash (/) at the beginning of the path field! That will confuse Chandler.