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

[Christian Mollekopf]

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