I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton

Re:I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton by sneak on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:20AM (#42708246)

This is a function of Proton’s weird e2ee setup, which the calendar and contacts and email protocols were never designed for.

I self-host my own calendar, email, and contacts now.

You can probably do it on a raspberry pi or small NUC at home, with some port forwards over nebula/tailscale from a $5 VPS, if you wish.

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Re:I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton by egamirorrim on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:31AM (#42708326)

Self hosting email sounds like it comes with a lot of dragons, what do you use for it?

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Re:I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton by prmoustache on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:12AM (#42708564)

Having said that, you can self host only calendars and contact, this is nowhere as complicated and maintenance intensive as emails. Or use one of the many nextcloud providers available, the free tier is usually enough for that.

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Re:I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton by leshenka on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:59AM (#42708854)

I used to self-host email. I'm not a devops specialist, I'm not an email specialist, and I had to solve issues on a weekly basis.

I ended up moving to Fastmail, too. And if I'm moving email to FM, might as well move calendars.

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Re:I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton by ibbtown on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:39AM (#42708371)

I can recommend z-push as active sync frontend. It can combine different data source (IMAP, caldav, carddav).

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Re:I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton by tempfile on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:17AM (#42708593)

Dragons to the point of being impossible. Self hosting your outgoing mail means it will almost surely never reach the recipient due to reputation issues. You can, however, set up a respected email provider with your own domain (meaning that, in particular, you can switch providers easily). I have done this myself, using ForwardEmail as the provider.

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