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Calendar and Contacts Sync on Android by CalDAV and CardDav from cPanel

Last updated on Apr 6,2024 |

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by Johnny Hoo

Introduction

Using email on your phone will be convenient for you check on the email anytime and anywhere. However, you will be frustrated if your Calendar and Contacts on your phone didn’t sync with the webmail.
By going through this guidance, you will be able to sync your Calendar and Contacts.

Prerequisite

Access to WHM and cPanel
Knowledge on WHM and cPanel
Knowledge on Email configuration
Google Contacts was installed

1. To Install Calendar and Contacts Server in WHM, navigate to Manage Plugin -> Calendar and Contacts Server.
2. Login to your webmail and navigate to Calendar, make sure the event that you are created under cPanel CALDAV. You may disable to Default option to avoid confusion.
  
  And same goes to your email Contacts book.
3. Navigate to Settings on phone, and find the Account settings (*You may see different name according to different phone manufacturer)
  Then, scroll down to the bottom and click Add account.
4. Select the Exchange or Microsoft Exchange
5. Enter your email in the field and click on Set up manually.
6. In the setup page, enter details below then click on Next and the email will be setup successfully.
  Account Info
  – Email password
  Server settings
  – Your email
  – Mail server (should be mail.<domainname>.)
  – Port 2091
7. Some of the phone may have different sync frequency. To Adjust it, you may back to Account setting and select the Exchange account.
8. You will see 2 options in this page:
  – Sync account -> to view item that need to sync (Contacts, Emails and Calendar)
  – Account settings (to change Sync -> Select your email setting
  
  Then change the Sync frequency to Automatic
9. Once is done, you should be seeing the Calendar and Contacts are sync to your phone.