As documented in my previous posts 1, 2, 3, and 4, I’ve been having…trouble…with my radicale installation. Went as far in the past couple weeks of switching from the python package (the most up-to-date version) to the Ubuntu-packaged version – a downgrade from 3.5.2 to 3.1.8, which, yikes, but that’s what I get for using an Ubuntu LTS droplet I guess – which is definitely not the thing that seems to have actually, finally, at long last delivered me from this stupid cycle in which I trapped myself. The issue, in the end, turned out to be a misconfigured rights file. The documentation for it was right there the whole time, starting me in the face. But at least I figured this out now.