Contacts: Specify custom CardDAV service

[Tamriel]

What version of Mailspring are you using?

1.7.1

Feature Request? I would like to use my ownCloud CardDAV service for the contacts, but don't find a place where to enter its URL and credentials.

[bengotow]

Hey! There isn't a way to do this currently, but we'll probably add it when the full calendar launches later this year. In the meantime, if your CardDAV server and your IMAP server share username / password settings, you can tell Mailspring where your CardDAV server is using the SRV record standard. If your email address is me@example.com, edit your DNS records for example.com and add a SRV record (_carddavs._tcp.example.com => your carddav server domain). That will actually allow Mailspring and (almost) all other CardDav apps to find your server without further configuration! The same exists for _caldavs._tcp.example.com for calendar.

[tvercaut]

Not sure if this warrants a separate feature request but additionally, the following two related features would be nice:

1) Be able to fetch contacts from a gmail account even if the the gmail account is not being used for emails in Mailspring

2) Be able to fetch contacts from Mac OS X built in Contacts app. Note that this option is available in Thunderbird's Address Book where one can find the Mac OS X Address Book

[kirkbeard]

2. Be able to fetch contacts from Mac OS X built in Contacts app. Note that this option is available in Thunderbird's Address Book where one can find the Mac OS X Address Book

I'd like to request this as well. I can understand other users would like built-in contact/calendar features for Mailspring, but I only use it as a dedicated mail app. I'd prefer all contacts to come from the macOS Contacts app (which stores contacts in iCloud, separate to my email accounts). At the moment (for me at least), email autocompletion is a complete mess in Mailspring, and I'm constantly double-checking that Mailspring isn't going to send an email to a random person I received an email from 7 years ago.

[EugenMayer]

This is my personal deal-breaker for Mailspring. I have several email accounts and several addressbooks, some hosted on mailbox.org, some on our zimbra and some on my own carddav server ( synology ).

Not being able to add them all like i do in evolution does block mailspring for me entirely.

[hawkette]

Is this still happening? Would love CalDav/CardDav support

" but we'll probably add it when the full calendar launches later this year" was posted about 9 months ago.

Right now using MineTime and it's a bit clunky...

[pinglekoder]

Not having carddav is also a dealbreaker for me. I would like to have a "closed" system within my own network, not sharing the data with any Alphabetical company.

[foundry376-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Mailspring Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.getmailspring.com/t/contacts-specify-custom-carddav-service/531/1

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