Thanks for the quick response. I'll reply in the text - John On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:26 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > <snip>> 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. I assume if I apply the above patch and repackage my Evolution .deb file, it should then work. Is that true? > > > 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. <snip> > No, that is incorrect. WebDAV, properly implemented, is VERY efficient. OK - perhaps it is because it did not successfully get the list the first time that it attempts a full download each time. <snip>
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