Using your Bravenet calendar with Calendar Programs


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You can use your Bravenet Calendar within the Bravenet Webmail offering or third party calendar programs which support a feature called CalDav.

Calendar

You can access your calendar through our webmail system at https://webmail.bravehost.com or also available through the Email tab with the Bravenet Console. When prompted, just enter your e-mail address and the password associated with that address. If you forget your e-mail password, you can reset it in the e-mail tab of your Bravenet account.

You can also view your calendar through any program that supports CalDav. The calendar CalDav feature is not a feature requested very often and is not enabled by default in each email account. If you want to enable CalDav access to your Bravenet Calendar simply contact our friendly Support Staff and they can enable that feature for you.

General Setup

The exact steps to set up your calendar client differ based on the client.

In general you will need the following:

  1. Device connected to the internet with Calendar software / app installed
  2. Active Email Account (Example@Domain.com) at Bravenet and the Email password associated with that email account (YourEmailPassword)
  3. You will need to contact the Bravenet Support Staff to enable CalDav on your email account as this is not an often used feature. Please open a support ticket and provide a list of email accounts you would like CalDav enabled for.
  4. You can verify the password of each account you want to configure at https://webmail.bravehost.com . If you are unable to login with webmail you will not be able to setup a Calendar.

Specific Calendar Software Settings

We have the included Calendar setup for the most popular Calendar programs below.

iOS / iPadOS Calendar

Use the following process to add a calendar Example@Domain.com with an email password of YourEmailPassword to the iOS native Calendar app. Please substitute Example@Domain.com and YourEmailPassword throughout this help document with your own email address and email password.

The latest iOS recommend, at the time of this document creation iOS 17.x was used (Feb 2024)

  1. Verify your email password: https://webmail.bravehost.com
    1. Example@Domain.com
    2. YourEmailPassword
  2. Configure iOS native Calendar App on initial setup screen
    1. iOS > Settings > Calendars
    2. Accounts > Add Account > Other > Add CalDav Account
    3. Server         mail.bravehost.com
    4. User name:   Example@Domain.com
    5. Password    YourEmailPassword
    6. Description   Calendar Example@Domain.com
  3. Confirm Calendars is selected, Reminders is unselected, click Save.
  4. Test your personal Example@Domain.com calendar by creating an entry using the iOS native calendar app and verifying synchronization in Bravenet Webmail https://webmail.bravehost.com Calendar

Microsoft Outlook and Outlook CalDav Synchronizer

Use the following process to add a calendar Example@Domain.com with an email password of YourEmailPassword to the iOS native Calendar app. Please substitute Example@Domain.com and YourEmailPassword throughout this help document with your own email address and email password.

The latest Outlook is recommend, at the time of this document creation Windows 11 with Outlook 2021 was used (Feb 2024). A third party Outlook CalDav Synchronizer is required from https://caldavsynchronizer.org for use.

  1. Verify your email password: https://webmail.bravehost.com
    1. Example@Domain.com
    2. YourEmailPassword
  2. Configure an Outlook profile for use. The easiest way to accomplish this is to setup IMAP and SMTP email to your Bravenet Account.
  3. Close Outlook and install Outlook CalDav Synchronizer. At the time of this document creation Outlook CalDav Synchronizer 4.4.1 was used.
    1. Download and install https://caldavsynchronizer.org/download-2/
    2. During installation we recommend you change 'install for just me' to install for everyone'
  4. Open Outlook and configure CalDav
    1. CalDav Synchronizer > Synchronization Profiles
    2. Add new Calendar Connection for USER calendar
      1. Add new profile (Green plus sign)
      2. Select Generic CalDAV/CardDAV as a profile type > OK
        1. Options
          1. Name:
            1. Bravenet Calendar - Example@Domain.com
          2. Outlook Settings > Outlook Folder > … Button
            1. Select Calendar (This Computer Only) > OK
          3. Enter Server Settings
            1. DAV URL: https://mail.bravehost.com/user1%40bn2test.com/personal_calendar/
            2. Username: Example@Domain.com
            3. Password: YourEmailPassword
          4. Synchronization Interval
            1. 5 minutes
  5. Test your personal accounts@fieldfivefarm.ca calendar by creating an entry using the iOS native calendar app and verifying synchronization in Bravenet Webmail https://webmail.bravehost.com Calendar


Setup CalDav calendatOutlook for example@domain.com

Ensure you Setup an Outlook Email profile for each member connected to Bravenet in Outlook

Construct calDav url by using your email example@domain.com and change the USER and domain in the link below. Note use a %40 for the @ sign.

https://mail.bravehost.com/EXAMPLE%40DOMAIN.COM/personal_calendar/

for example if you had foo@bar.com as an email address the URL would be

https://mail.bravehost.com/foo%40bar.com/personal_calendar/

Install Outlook CalDav Synchronizer from https://caldavsynchronizer.org/download-2/

This example used Version 4.4.1, Ensure you change the just me option to everyone during installation.

Open Outlook and configure CalDAV

Add new Calendar Connection for calendar (example@domain.com)

Outlook > CalDav Synchronizer > Synchronization Profiles

Add new profile (Green plus sign)

Select Generic CalDAV/CardDAV as a profile type > OK

Options

Name:

Bravenet Calendar - example@domain.com

Outlook Settings > Outlook Folder > … Button

Select Calendar (This Computer Only) > OK

Enter Server Settings

DAV URL: https://mail.bravehost.com/example%40domain.com/personal_calendar/

Username: example@domain.com

Password: ******

Synchronization Interval

5 minutes


Notes