General problem with connectors

[Volker Stoppe]

Hallo together!

I´ve been -very- busy on testing different connectors the last days and  
they seem to have the same problem. Syncing contacts seems fine but when I  
sync calenders the new entries often don´t get synced. This happend with  
Thunderbird+Lightning+SynKolab and Toltec Connector with Outlook 2007  
(wasn´t my decision to use it). Konsec Konnektor is mentioned to be  
Outlook 2007 ready in the change log, but someone form Konsec wrote me  
that the connector isn´t realy tested with Outlook 2007. The Dialog for  
Konsec Konnektor for sharing Outlook folders didn´t even appear.

Could there be general reason for these missing syncs?


Now when I am writing this mail I think I come more closer to the problem.
A typical situation is: User-B adds an appointment in the Calender of  
User-A and syncs. Both users have full access to each others calenders.  
The imapd.log looks like this, when User-B clicks on Calender in Outlook.  
How important is the message "SQUAT failed to open index file"? It seems  
that the appointment isn´t written in the Calender of User-A

Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: accepted connection
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: mydelete: starting txn 2147483710
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: mydelete: committing txn  
2147483710
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: mystore: starting txn 2147483711
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: mystore: committing txn  
2147483711
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <notice> imap[20084]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher  
AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <notice> imap[20084]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher  
AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <notice> imap[20084]: login: WinMac [192.168.1.22]  
userb at formaxx.ag PLAIN+TLS User logged in
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <notice> imap[20084]: login: WinMac [192.168.1.22]  
userb at formaxx.ag PLAIN+TLS User logged in
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: open: user userb at formaxx.ag  
opened INBOX/Kalender
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: SQUAT failed to open index file
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: SQUAT failed
Mar 14 00:37:30 mail <debug> imap[20084]: cmd_expunge: user  
userb at formaxx.ag, mailbox formaxx.ag!user.userb.Kalender, sequence ''


I get these logs when User-A clicks on calender:

Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: accepted connection
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: mydelete: starting txn 2147483716
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: mydelete: committing txn  
2147483716
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: mystore: starting txn 2147483717
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: mystore: committing txn  
2147483717
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <notice> imap[20085]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher  
AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <notice> imap[20085]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher  
AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <notice> imap[20085]: login: mtdvd [192.168.1.37]  
usera at formaxx.ag PLAIN+TLS User logged in
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <notice> imap[20085]: login: mtdvd [192.168.1.37]  
usera at formaxx.ag PLAIN+TLS User logged in
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: open: user usera at formaxx.ag  
opened INBOX/Kalender
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: SQUAT failed to open index file
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: SQUAT failed
Mar 14 00:39:06 mail <debug> imap[20085]: cmd_expunge: user  
usera at formaxx.ag, mailbox formaxx.ag!user.usera.Kalender, sequence ''

I want to prensnet our it-chef a practical solution as an MS-Exchange  
replacement with Kolab. But with this quality I can´t present him anything  
convincing.

Any Ideas?

Greetinx

Volker