Calendar and contacts not showing up in Kontact

Discussion:

Johannes Ranke

2017-02-10 09:30:52 UTC

Hi,

I am migrating an existing kolab installation to a different virtual server and
have done a fresh install of Kolab 16 on Debian jessie.

Setting it up worked fine and I have created a regular Kolab user. The command

kolab lm

lists all the folders I could dream of, including ***@domain.org and
***@domain.org.

However, I can not get kontact on the client side to use calendar and contact
from the new server.

When I configure a kolab groupware account for the new server, I only see the
email folders (Inbox, Archives, ...). Korganizer and kaddressbook have no
entries for the new account.

I have tried with kontact 4.14.1 from Debian jessie, kontact 5.x from Ubuntu
16.10 and current kontact from KDE neon, so the problem appears to be on the
server side.

Any hints?

Johannes

P.S.: Maybe it is relevant that in addition to the new server
kolab.domain.org, my old kolab 3.4 installation is still running on
{www,smtp,imap,mail}.domain.org. Is it possible that this old installation
gets in the way, i.e. kontact tries to talk that old installation, although I
specify the new server kolab.domain.org?

Johannes Ranke

2017-02-10 10:01:36 UTC

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Hi again,

Possibly, these folders are being suppressed by guam. According to its
documentation, it suppresses groupware folders for clients that do not
advertise themselves with a "user agent" string containing the substring
"/Kolab".

https://kolabsys.com/about/guam/troubleshooting.html

I have not found out how to check the user agent string for the various
versions of kontact I have tried. I would think that current versions such as
shipped with KDE neon should be compatible with kolab 16. I will try to check.

Johannes

Post by Johannes Ranke
Hi,
I am migrating an existing kolab installation to a different virtual server
and have done a fresh install of Kolab 16 on Debian jessie.
Setting it up worked fine and I have created a regular Kolab user. The command
kolab lm
However, I can not get kontact on the client side to use calendar and
contact from the new server.
When I configure a kolab groupware account for the new server, I only see
the email folders (Inbox, Archives, ...). Korganizer and kaddressbook have
no entries for the new account.
I have tried with kontact 4.14.1 from Debian jessie, kontact 5.x from Ubuntu
16.10 and current kontact from KDE neon, so the problem appears to be on
the server side.
Any hints?
Johannes
P.S.: Maybe it is relevant that in addition to the new server
kolab.domain.org, my old kolab 3.4 installation is still running on
{www,smtp,imap,mail}.domain.org. Is it possible that this old installation
gets in the way, i.e. kontact tries to talk that old installation, although
I specify the new server kolab.domain.org?
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Johannes Ranke

2017-02-10 12:01:50 UTC

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OK, it seems to me that guam is responsible indeed. I have reported this here:

https://git.kolab.org/T2241

I hope I did not overlook anything. Cheers,

Johannes

Post by Johannes Ranke
Hi again,
Possibly, these folders are being suppressed by guam. According to its
documentation, it suppresses groupware folders for clients that do not
advertise themselves with a "user agent" string containing the substring
"/Kolab".
https://kolabsys.com/about/guam/troubleshooting.html
I have not found out how to check the user agent string for the various
versions of kontact I have tried. I would think that current versions such
as shipped with KDE neon should be compatible with kolab 16. I will try to
check.
Johannes

Post by Johannes Ranke
Hi,
I am migrating an existing kolab installation to a different virtual server
and have done a fresh install of Kolab 16 on Debian jessie.
Setting it up worked fine and I have created a regular Kolab user. The command
kolab lm
However, I can not get kontact on the client side to use calendar and
contact from the new server.
When I configure a kolab groupware account for the new server, I only see
the email folders (Inbox, Archives, ...). Korganizer and kaddressbook have
no entries for the new account.
I have tried with kontact 4.14.1 from Debian jessie, kontact 5.x from
Ubuntu 16.10 and current kontact from KDE neon, so the problem appears to
be on the server side.
Any hints?
Johannes
P.S.: Maybe it is relevant that in addition to the new server
kolab.domain.org, my old kolab 3.4 installation is still running on
{www,smtp,imap,mail}.domain.org. Is it possible that this old installation
gets in the way, i.e. kontact tries to talk that old installation, although
I specify the new server kolab.domain.org?
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
https://lists.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
PD Dr. Johannes Ranke
Wissenschaftlicher Berater

Kronacher Str. 12
79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen
Germany
+49 7624 8099027
http://jrwb.de
USt-IdNr.: DE292883940

Johannes Ranke

2017-02-10 13:43:17 UTC

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As a workaround, I have found out how to disable the groupware folder
filtering:

--- sys.config.orig 2017-02-10 11:30:09.075115930 +0100
+++ sys.config 2017-02-10 14:38:23.877021226 +0100
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@
{ port, 143 },
{ imap_server, imaps },
{
- rules, [
- { filter_groupware, [] }
- ]
+ rules, []
},
{
tls_config, [
@@ -37,9 +35,7 @@
{ implicit_tls, true },
{ imap_server, imaps },
{
- rules, [
- { filter_groupware, [] }
- ]
+ rules, []
},
{
tls_config, [

Apply this to /etc/guam/sys.config and do

service guam restart

and then all folders will show up in kontact!

Cheers,

Johannes

Post by Johannes Ranke
https://git.kolab.org/T2241
I hope I did not overlook anything. Cheers,
Johannes

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