[Kolab-devel] What is the correct X-Kolab-Type for a Contacts Group?

[Brady, Mike]

On 2014-03-24 23:06, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> On Monday 24 March 2014 10.50:03 Christian Mollekopf wrote:
>> On Friday 21 March 2014 16.22:36 Brady, Mike wrote:
>> > What is the correct X-Kolab-Type for a Contacts Group and/or where is
>> > the authoritative source for the Kolab 3 XML format?
>> >
>> > I have found two sources that both say they are draft and they have a
>> > different X-Kolab-Type for Contacts Groups as noted below.
>> >
>> > [1] https://wiki.kolab.org/Kolab_3.0_Storage_Format
>> > Has an X-Kolab-Type of application/x-vnd.kolab.contact.distlist
>> >
>> >
>> > [2] https://wiki.kolab.org/User:Mollekopf/Drafts/KEP:17
>> > Has an X-Kolab-Type of application/x-vnd.kolab.distribution-list
>> >
>> > Roundcube uses [2], but the Bynari Outlook Connector uses [1], so
>> > neither can see or use Contact Groups created by the other.
>> 
>> application/x-vnd.kolab.contact.distlist should be used, 
>> distribution-list
>> is only there for backwards compatibility. I'll fix KEP:17 
>> accordingly.
>> 
> 
> I'm sorry that was the wrong way around. 
> application/x-vnd.kolab.distribution-
> list is the new one and should be used, application/x-
> vnd.kolab.contact.distlist comes from the v2 format and is deprecated.
> 
> I'll therefore fix the wikipage and libkolab accordingly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 

Thanks Christian.  I will log a call with Bynari to get their Outlook 
Connector fixed.