[Kolab-devel] Completing ActiveSync integration in Kolab, and a request for input on IMAP annotatemore extensions

Alain Abbas alain.abbas at libertech.fr
Tue Mar 23 11:26:12 CET 2010





Le 23 mars 2010 à 11:19, "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at kolabsys.com> a  
écrit :

> On Tuesday 23 March 2010 11:08:47 Alain Abbas wrote:
>> 1) a variables who tell if the device is in folder mode or flat mode
>> 2) we could have a global setting by device type in the config file
>> where to store the by device setting?
>
> In order to avoid introducing too many flags, we could put this   
> into the same
> variable by making the binary "yes/no" synchronisation a bit mask.
>
> In result, it would look like this:
>
>        /vendor/kolab/activesync
>
> defaults to a value of 1, if not set, or will be parsed as a string  
> of the
> format:
>
>                <BITMAP>[;<SERIAL NO>:<BITMAP>[;<SERIAL NO>:<BITMAP> 
> [...]]]
>
>        with <SERIAL NO> = serial number of the phone
>        and <BITMAP> =
>           bit 0: synchronise: <yes|no>
>           bit 1: fold into flat hierarchy: <yes|no>
>           bit 2: make this the target for new items from the phone:  
> <yes|no>
>
this is a global parameter
store in INBOX annotation ?

> where sanity checking of bit 2 would be the responsibility of the
> administrative interface, you would simply look for the first folder  
> you find
> with this flag set and put new items of that category into them.
>
> This should allow for any possible use case anyone might ever want,  
> I think.
>
>
>> is cyrus is ready to store our annotations or it needs patchs ?
>
> That is the big question, and the one that was really the one posed  
> to the
> list in the initial email - unfortunately we got sidetracked.
>
> We know it should, and I believe Bernhard Herzog has pointed out how  
> it is
> supposed to work with the current cyrus, but we still need to define  
> that
> annotation and then test whether it works as well in practice as  
> theory
> suggests.
>
> Any help on that would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
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>
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>
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