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  • Best way to have Calendar, Contacts, emails synchronized with PC?

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sycamore Even if you pay in cash you log in with your IP address...

    Migrate your data to Proton [https://proton.me] and stop using Outlook is one option.

    Calendar - Proton Calendar app
    Email - Proton Mail app
    Contacts - my solution is split:
    (a) All contact details including high value contact information (eg: DOB, address, email) are stored in the contacts section of the Proton Mail app. The contacts are in the cloud so no synching required.
    (b) Basic contact information (eg: name, phone number) is in the AOSP stock contacts app. Not synched. Export and back up the csv file periodically to PC.
    All PC based activity is via a web browser logged into Proton for contacts, email and calendar. Contacts within Proton Mail contacts will become available within the Proton Mail app, cloud calendar will sync with the Proton Calendar app.

    High value contact information is enclosed in the Proton Mail app and not subject to Android contact permissions.
    The calendar information is enclosed in the Proton Calendar app and not subject to Android calendar permissions.

    Proton Calendar
    https://protonmail.com/download/CalendarAndroid/ProtonCalendar-Android.apk
    SHA256 fingerprint of the signing certificate
    DCC9439EC1A6C6A8D0203F3423EE42BCC8B970628E53CB73A0393F398DD5B853

    Protonmail Email
    https://protonmail.com/download/MailAndroid/ProtonMail-Android.apk
    SHA256 fingerprint of the signing certificate
    DCC9439EC1A6C6A8D0203F3423EE42BCC8B970628E53CB73A0393F398DD5B853
    Reference: https://www.protonapps.com/protonmail-android

    If your GrapheneOS device is lost or stolen the sessions for both the Proton Calendar app and the Proton Mail app can be revoked using your PC.
    https://proton.me/support/log-out-all-other-sessions

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      Even if you pay in cash you log in with your IP address...

      I don't see how this relates to anything I wrote but ok. It's not like my sentence "You can pay in cash" somehow implies "they cannot get your IP" or "you are anonymous go do crazy shit". Also, trivial to use Tor, problem solved.

      2 months later

      I use Calendar from Simple Mobile Tools. When I try to turn on CalDAV sync, I get "No syncable calendars have been found." I read from the DAVx5 documentation that calendar apps can sync their data to Android Calendar Storage (preinstalled app without GUI).
      Have any of you solved the same problem? Do I understand correctly that GOS does not include the Android Calendar Storage app? Is it possible to install it?

        a month later

        @fromTom Did you figure out the issue you were having with no calendars found error? I am having the same issue. Maybe storage pools needs to be adjusted?

        8 months later
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        fromTom Android Calendar Storage is not a CALDAV Server. It is a local container. You will need to set up a CALDAV Server via an external source connected to your local calendar storage via DAVX5.
        External sources include: Nextcloud, Baikal, Ete-Sync, Posteo.de, Mailbox.org, and Google if you want to go down that path. I posted on this subject a few days ago.

        I've been using Protonmail for EMail, and Etesync for CalDav and CardDav Calendar, Contacts and Tasks sync across platforms for the last four years or so with great success. I use the Etar app from F-Droid and Thunderbird on desktop with the Lightning and Cardbook add-ons to sync my calendar and contacts, though TB just recently added native support for CardDav I believe. I find both Protonmail and Etesync with the Bridge program and the Android apps is an incredibly easy, open source and encrypted way to keep your contacts and calendar access. The Protonmail Android app is a little to be left desired due to no push notifications or auto-updating APK now going on four years later for some reason.

        If you are wedded to Outlook like some of us are with our jobs, you can use the DavMail bridge client to access the Exchange Server on desktop PCs with just about any email program you like, including Thunderbird. For Android access, you can set up a DavMail server (very complicated) to access your Exchange Server with K-9 Mail, FairEmail, and Davx5. On Outlook, you can access your Etesync calendar and contacts with the CalDav Synchronizer program. I have not gotten around to setting up the DavMajl server so I am using Nine Folders from the Play Store to access my work calendar emails and tasks, which uses Office365 sadly.

        sycamore
        Hi @sycamore,
        thanks for your recommendation of Nitrokey's Nextbox!
        But I have no landline, therefore I have no router for (A)DSL.
        I have only mobile-telephony (unlimited plan), using my smartphones as WLAN hotspots.

        Is it possible to get this nice Nextbox online via tethering, using a smartphone or LTE USB-dongle?
        I couldn't find anything about this in the online docs/website of Nitrokey.
        But maybe you can find it in their manual or know a newer link to that information with all ways to go online with that Nextbox?

          Eagle_Owl I don't know. There are no docs over and above what is on their website. I'd ask them directly via email (I think that's their preferred channel).