[Kolab-devel] [issue3386] Kontact requires that free/busy urls match email addresses

[Bernhard Herzog]

New submission from Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de>:

Tested with Kontact from KDEPIM enterprise 3.5 rev. 914162.

When Kontact tries to fetch the free/busy list for a given Email address (e.g.
while adding participants in the event dialog), it checks whether the hostname
of the free/busy url matches the hostname of the email address.  If they don't
match, Kontact simply does nothing.

For instance, let's assume the email address is "user at example.com" and the
hostname of the kolab server is "kolab.example.com".  If the full hostname is
used in the free/busy url, Kontact tries to fetch the free/busy list.  However,
if you only use "kolab" as the hostname (which should work assuming "kontact"
resolves to the same address as "kolab.example.com") then Kontact doesn't even
try.  Instead one gets the following debug output:

korganizer: Host 'kolab' doesn't match email 'user at example.com'
korganizer: FreeBusyManager::processRetrieveQueue(): url:
korganizer: Invalid FB URL

Setups where the Kolab hostname does not match the email address appear to be
common in practice.  There have been several problem reports because of this.

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assignedto: allen
messages: 18427
nosy: allen, bh, ludwig, wilde
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Kontact requires that free/busy urls match email addresses
topic: enterprise35, kde client
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