Does Runbox work with CalDAV/CardDAV in GNOME Online Accounts?

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#1

Hello,
I am trying to set up CalDAV/CardDAV in GNOME settings (under “Online Accounts”) on my computer running Fedora Linux 42. When I enter my information and hit Sign In, it just hangs forever. Has anyone else been able to make this work?

(The window in question looks like this: https://www.heise.de/imgs/18/4/5/5/9/9/7/5/02_gnome46_webdav-73fa7a536673bdb3.png)

I am entering the following information:
Server address: https://dav.runbox.com/
Username: (username)@runbox.com
Password: (app specific password)
Files: (blank)
Calendar (CalDAV): https://dav.runbox.com/calendars/(number)
Contacts (CardDAV): https://dav.runbox.com:443/addressbooks/(number)

I am pretty sure I have set up CalDAV/CardDAV properly on the Runbox side, because I have been able to make it work successfully on my iPhone, and in Thunderbird.

I have read every Runbox help page on CalDAV/CardDAV that I have been able to find, so I’m not sure what I am doing wrong. Maybe the functionality in GNOME is broken?

Grateful for any help! :pray:

#2

Working just fine with Fedora 42 on my laptop
Maybe your calendars have a lot of entries and it takes a long time to sync?

#3

Thanks for your reply! Knowing that it was supposed to work gave me motivation to dig a little deeper.

Sniffed some network traffic, and (to my very untrained eyes) it looks like the DNS query for dav runbox com is what makes the process hang. I tried entering the IP address 185.226.149.33 in the setup instead of dav.runbox.com, and it worked!

The only problem now is the the Calendar/Contacs apps complain that the certificate and address don’t match up. I checked the certificate, and it says runbox.com, so it should be ok, right? :sweat_smile:

#4

Thanks for posting this. I’m also having the same problem adding a Runbox caldav account in GNOME Online Accounts. I was able to work around this by using 185.226.149.33 for the server address, as you suggested.

In order to fix the SSL certificate error, I opened ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf and replaced every instance of 185.226.149.33 with dav.runbox.com. This resolved the SSL error for me after login out/restarting.