On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:26 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are having a nightmare of a time trying to integrate > Zimbra and any Linux based PIM front end. Both Evolution and Kontact > (from KDE 3.5 as we are using Debian Lenny) are seriously broken when it > comes to interoperating with Zimbra.
Your problems are not specific to Zimbra (assuming Zimbra itself has a good WebDAV implementation; I dunno, I haven't paid attention to Zimbra for a long time). > IMAP and CalDAV are working very well in Evolution but Contacts have > become a showstopper on what could be a very large Evolution deployment > as email without contacts is . . . well . . . useless. > The first issue is that we are able to connect via webdav to Zimbra and > download the series of .vcf files but Evolution does not seem to > recognize them. No contacts appear and there are no search results. I > am guessing the problem is that the webdav plugin is expecting mime-type > text/x-vcard but Zimbra returns text/vcard. Apparently x-vcard has been > deprecated in favor of vcard. "WebDAV backend for addressbook is too strict about content-type." <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566330> > Is there any way to get the webdav plugin > to access vcard instead? No. > The second problem is the impracticality of downloading the entire > contact list every time one wishes to make a query against the contact > list. This does not happen. It 'merely' performs a PROPFIND for each search. Although, that too, seem unnecessary. "WebDAV Addressbook backend should use ctags" <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617168> > We are looking at thousands of contacts. Yep. > I'm guessing we are > stuck with that as it is the nature of WebDAV from what I understand. No, that is incorrect. WebDAV, properly implemented, is VERY efficient. > Is there any other way? I'd love to use LDAP but that presents other > issues more on the Zimbra side. LDAP as an addressbook solution blows gewy chunks. I tried for years to make that work. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. We've lost weeks on this and > risk putting a potentially multi-thousand node deployment at risk if we > do not solve it. Thanks - John As far as write support goes fixing Bug#566354 would also be important [comply with GroupDAV spec]. "The WebDAV backend should handle Location header after a response to PUT method" <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566354> -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
