[HN Gopher] EteSync - Secure Data Sync
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       EteSync - Secure Data Sync
        
       Author : wcerfgba
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2021-02-02 18:57 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.etesync.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.etesync.com)
        
       | miguelrochefort wrote:
       | How does it compare to Nextcloud?
        
         | vinay427 wrote:
         | It's for contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes. It's more of a
         | CalDAV/CardDAV replacement with end-to-end encryption than a
         | Nextcloud replacement, which AFAIK doesn't have E2EE for
         | syncing these bits.
         | 
         | Also, as it doesn't directly use CalDAV/CardDAV it depends on a
         | client app. At least on Android, the app syncs to the system
         | calendar/contacts so it works just as seamlessly as Nextcloud's
         | recommendation of DAVx5 or any other contacts/calendar/tasks
         | service in that you can access the data from any standard
         | calendar or contacts application.
        
           | StavrosK wrote:
           | > which AFAIK doesn't have E2EE for syncing these bits
           | 
           | Which ends do you mean? It supports TLS, so it's E2EE
           | (between server and client).
        
             | minitech wrote:
             | The relevant "ends" in end-to-end encryption are usually
             | clients, and that's the case here.
        
       | mtmsr wrote:
       | Discussion from 3m ago:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895830
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13975965
         | 
         | (The one from 3 months ago didn't get significant attention so
         | I don't think we'll mark it a dupe - see
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)
        
       | jamesponddotco wrote:
       | I use EteSync both at my company and personal life to share
       | events with the team or with my wife, and to manage my contacts
       | and tasks on my "no Google allowed" phone.
       | 
       | I can integrate with calcurse[1] to stay up to date during the
       | day or with aerc[2] when I need to send an email to someone,
       | because they include a Dav bridge[3], but I can also integrate it
       | with the GNOME environment because a module for evolution
       | exists[4].
       | 
       | Plus, the developer[5] has been genuinely nice and handled all
       | support, and billing questions like a champ, in a speedy manner,
       | and always in a polite tone.
       | 
       | My only problem with EteSync so far is that sharing an event can
       | only be done through the web application right now, so I need to
       | switch from calcurse to a browser, share the event, and then come
       | back. Minor issue in the grand scheme of things, though.
       | 
       | Well worth the price, in my opinion. Might be one of the few
       | services that I do not migrate to a self-hosted instance instead.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.calcurse.org/
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       | [2] https://aerc-mail.org/
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       | [3] https://github.com/etesync/etesync-
       | dav/blob/master/README.md...
       | 
       | [4] https://www.etesync.com/user-guide/evolution/
       | 
       | [5] https://github.com/tasn
        
         | mssundaram wrote:
         | Thank you for sharing the resources and inspiration. What email
         | and calendar apps do you use on your phone?
        
           | jamesponddotco wrote:
           | I use FairEmail[1] as my email client and Simple Calendar
           | Pro[2] for my calendar needs, both from the F-Droid store.
           | 
           | [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/
           | 
           | [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.cal
           | end...
        
       | alexandrerond wrote:
       | Etesync is awesome. Totally worth the buck. Does one (or two
       | things) and does them well. Support is superb.
       | 
       | Perfect for backing up and syncing contacts for those that don't
       | want to give the data to Google etc.
        
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