I'm sure there are many ways, but I used https://sabre.io/baikal/ to get a CalDAV and CardDAV server on cheap (shared, bog standard) web hosting, and then pointed Thunderbird to it. Apart from automatic syncing of contacts between devices, I can now edit my phone contacts on the desktop, which is so awesome. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I use Baikal. It's a CalDav and CardDav server which run easily on a NAS with Docker for example. Source: about 1 year ago

You might want to look into https://sabre.io/baikal/ or get a true groupware mailbox, e.g. An Exchange account with M365. Source: about 1 year ago

I'm using Baïkal to manage my contacts, events and tasks and I'm pretty happy with it. Source: about 1 year ago

Also look at Baikal, in addtion to Radicale. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://libremesh.org/ is interesting, but it only really works if the devices is close enough to each other and either way, you will need a gateway to the rest of the internet. Source: over 2 years ago

Few routers are supported and widespread ad-hoc mesh networking remains mostly a pipe dream at this point. You can find a few attempts to do what you're asking for such as commotion and libremesh but they are just attempts and require significant planning put into the layout and configuration of the network which largely defeats your reason for wanting mesh networking. Like I said, there is little router support... Source: over 2 years ago

Today I head about mesh networks (https://libremesh.org/ or https://librerouter.org/) in a comment on r/ipfs. Source: over 3 years ago

IPFS is a solution on the software side for hardware check out https://libremesh.org/ or https://librerouter.org/. Source: over 3 years ago