Using your Bravenet calendar with Calendar Programs

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. Construct your DAV URL used below
   1. Divide your email address into two pieces separated by the @ sign. Example@Domain.com would become:
      1. Example
      2. Domain.com
   2. Construct the DAV URL used below:
      1. DAV URL:
         1. https://mail.bravehost.com/Example%40Domain.com/personal_calendar/
      2. Replace the Example with your username part
      3. Replace Domain.com with your domain part
      4. For example for an email address of foo@bar.com the DAV URL would be
         1. https://mail.bravehost.com/foo%40bar.com/personal_calendar/
      5. When asked for the DAV URL: use the version you constructed.
5. 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
6. 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

Configuring a Shared Calendar

To configure a shared calendar create a new email account at Bravenet similar to shared@Domain.com. Use the same setup instructions here to create the shared calendar.