Toltec Connector: wrong synchronization of deleted folders?

[Uwe Gresshake]

Tomasz,

probably my description was not clear enough. We did not use 2 clients 
with the same credentials at the same time. We used one client after the 
other.

First I accessed kolab with outlook/toltec client 1 and deleted the 
folder in outlook.
Then I did a sync with client 1 and kolab.
After the sync the folder was also deleted on the server, syncing this 
direction was successful.
Then I switched to client 2 and started outlook, client 1 was now offline.
On outlook client 2 the local copy of that folder was still existing 
from a previous sync.
I now expected that the local folder on outlook client 2 would also 
disappear, when doing a sync with kolab, because the most recent event 
was the deletion of the folder on the kolab server. But outlook/toltec 
client 2 copied its local folder back to the kolab server. It did not 
regognize, that there was a more recent status change on the server.
Deleting mails this way works well but deleting folders seems to cause 
problems.

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Uwe Gresshake schrieb:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we discovered the following problem when using kolab 2 with more than 
>> one outlook client (toltec connector 2.0.5) accessing the same 
>> mailbox folders on a kolab server:
>>
>> Some users access their kolab 2 mailboxes with two outlook clients 
>> (e.g. they use their workstation at work and their notebook at home).
>> First let's assume both clients are fully synchroniszed with the 
>> server, the notebook is connected to kolab, the workstation is offline.
>> If I delete a non empty mail folder in Outlook (notebook), this 
>> folder and all the mails in it are also deleted on the kolab server 
>> after sychonization. Until this point all is OK.
>> Then I start Outlook on the workstation and watch what is happening 
>> with the previously server deleted Outlook folder on the workstation.
>> I would expect that this folder is also deleted in Outllook on the 
>> workstation but this does not happen. Instead Outlook on the 
>> workstation copies the folder and the mails back in it to the kolab 
>> server. It synchronizes in the wrong direction.
>> For me it seems, that Outlook / Toltec connector does not always 
>> recognizes that server events are more actual than local events.
>>
>> How could this happen and how could I avoid this? Does anybody made 
>> same or similar experiences?
>
>
> IMHO there is no easy solution to that, other than not using 2 clients 
> with the same credentials at the same time.
>
> Maybe increasing the "sync" time to one minute in Toltec Connector 
> settings would help, but not always.
>
>
> This is similar to the situation when you use the same credentials on 
> many workstations with Samba, and use roaming profiles: in the end, 
> you will never know which workstation will upload a profile, delete 
> old files, etc.
>
> The situation with Toltec Connector is similar here.
>


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