[Kolab-devel] IMAP METADATA for Bynari Outlook Connector

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On 2014-09-29 20:28, Mat Cantin wrote:
> Greetings,
> 

Greetings, fellow earthling ;-)

> I'm working with the Bynari Outlook Connector to connect some users to
> Kolab with Outlook. The one thing that isn't working properly is the
> Bynari Connector's ability to identify Calendars and Contacts besides
> the default ones. Other calendars, including shared calendars from
> other users, just show up as regular mail folders.
> 
> When I brought this up with Bynari support they said the following:
> "The Kolab server must not have the IMAP METADATA set correctly that
> describe the type of folder is on the server."
> 
> I'm running Kolab 3.2 on Debian. Some help pointing me in the right
> direction would be appreciated.
> 

Cyrus IMAP has had a couple of iterations of METADATA support -- 
starting with ANNOTATEMORE, a draft that has now become the METADATA 
RFC.

The relevant parts of the codebase we're talking about here is quite 
complicated, all based on an effort to remain somewhat compatible with 
multiple drafts and mistaken/misinformed implementations ... TMI, I 
admit.

The easiest fix might be (^1) to add a line to imapd.conf(5), that says:

   suppress_capabilities: METADATA

I reckon the Bynari connector should fall back to using ANNOTATEMORE.

^1: I think they might only be polling for the private annotation 
/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type, and omit polling for the 
/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type.

That said, if you're willing to entertain a little log analysis:

   $ mkdir -p /var/lib/imap/log/john.doe at example.org
   $ chown cyrus:mail /var/lib/imap/log/john.doe at example.org

Now configure john.doe at example.org's Outlook+Bynari connector -- this 
will give us the literal transcript of what happens exactly.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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