Problem with Toltec Connector and calendar folder

[Joon Radley]

Hi,

I have had two reports of this behavior. To date we have found no
explanation for it

To help with this problem I will explain how we manage folder names with the
Toltec Connector.

The connector does not have a name mapping of any folder. It will create
folder on the IMAP4 server with the name that is in Outlook. So if it is
"Kalender" in Outlook it will be uploaded as "Kalender". We do not do any
name translation.

When a folder is found on the IMAP server it will first look if it is a
"default" and then map it to the default folder Outlook without changing the
name of the folder. Only if it is not a default folder will it take the name
on the server and create a folder in Outlook. 

Could you please provide me with the annotation of the "Kalender" folder as
it is on the server where the duplication occurs.

What I think is happening is that another client is creating default folders
for caldera when it detect that one is not present. Toltec will on create a
folder named "Calendar" from a English language Outlook. So if no English
language Outlook are present in the environment you may need to look at
other clients.

Best regards

Joon Radley
Radley Network Technologies CC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org 
> [mailto:kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Gungl
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:11 AM
> To: kolab-users at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with Toltec Connector and calendar folder
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 5. April 2006 21:12 schrieb Richard Bos:
> > Op woensdag 5 april 2006 17:56, schreef Andreas Gungl:
> > > My question is, has anybody seen this as well? Does 
> anybody know how 
> > > to get rid of the "duplicate" folder w/o the need to sync the 
> > > complete content of the account into a new PST file? What 
> can I do 
> > > to help to track down the cause of this effect?
> >
> > You might want to check the kolab-devel list, as there is a (short) 
> > discussion going about something similar.  It has the subject: 
> > Translated folder names
> 
> If people like Gunnar would use a "normal" format in their 
> messages, one could even read the archives... :-( Anyway, the 
> discussion there doesn't take me any further.
> 
> > and check out:
> > Have a look at the issue's:
> > https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue406
> > https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue771
> > https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue838
> 
> https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue406 comes closest to 
> my problem. 
> However I've just checked some details and while the issue 
> tends to blame Kontact I actually think that the Connector 
> has a problem in my case. Here is why:
> 
> Kontact shows exactly whats defined on the server. And I 
> actually never had problems with Kontact. I'm using LANG=C on 
> my Linux system running Kontact and the folder is named 
> Calendar in Kontact and on the server. The annotation is 
> pretty fine, the calendar folder is my default calendar:
> 
> localhost> info INBOX/Calendar
> {INBOX/Calendar}:
>   lastupdate:  4-Apr-2006 13:31:41 +0200
>   partition: default
>   size: 718776
>   folder-test: true
>   folder-type: event.default
>   h-share-uid: gungl at osp-dd.de
> localhost>
> 
> Now let's have a look at the OL + Connector side. If I start 
> with a new account and a new PST sync'ed with the server, I 
> end up with a folder "Calendar" in my German OL + German 
> Connector 2.0.x.
> I can usually use this calendar folder for quite some time 
> w/o problems, i.e. the events show up correctly and so on. 
> Everything is fine for me up to here.
> 
> At "a certain point in time" OL decides to come up with an 
> additional folder named Kalendar. However, there is no such 
> folder on the server.
> I'd be fine with having Kalender in OL if it insists on 
> translating the folder name as stated in some on the 
> mentioned issues. However I can't stand having _two_ folder 
> objects in the view for _one_ folder on the server while it's 
> unpredictable for me to know if the contents in the view is 
> correct in any of the folder views (Calendar and Kalender).
> 
> localhost> lm INBOX/*
> INBOX/CLS (\HasChildren)
> INBOX/CLS/... [snipped]
> INBOX/Calendar (\HasNoChildren)
> INBOX/Contacts (\HasNoChildren)
> INBOX/Gel&APY-schte Objekte (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/Hold 
> (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/Journal (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/KDE 
> (\HasChildren) INBOX/KDE/... [snipped] INBOX/KalenderTest 
> (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/Log-Mails (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/NOA 
> (\HasChildren) INBOX/NOA/... [snipped] INBOX/Notes 
> (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/Tasks (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/Trash 
> (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/Weitere_Projekte (\HasNoChildren) 
> INBOX/drafts (\HasNoChildren) INBOX/sent-mail (\HasNoChildren)
> localhost>
> 
> [Note that "KalenderTest" doesn't have an event annotation. I 
> use it to copy messages to there as kind of quick backup 
> before doing some "dangerous" 
> sync'ing to my Calendar folder and for using SyncKolab with T/Bird.]
> 
> 
> So after all it's not about checking some reports, but about 
> a completely 
> new problem which I'd like to have confirmed by somebody else 
> before I file 
> an issue against the Connector.
> BTW, one might even wonder why I don't get duplicates for Contacts 
> (Kontakte) or Tasks (Aufgaben). It somehow only happens to 
> Calendar for me. 
> I attach a small picture showing the folders in OL.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
>