General problem with connectors

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Volker,

"Volker Stoppe" <Grenzlaeufer at gmx.net> writes:

> 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?

Concerning Thunderbird I'd really still expect a few problems here and
there. The code is still rather new and while it progresses fast I
wouldn't expect a very high stability. Concerning the Toltec connecter
I'm surprised though. I never had troubles like the ones you describe
when I tested it against the Horde web client. I also used Outlook
2007. In general I'd say it's quite stable. 

> 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"? 

The SQUAT message isn't relevant. Check the first entries on google
for that.

> 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?

Your problem description is still a little bit too vague and it would
be good to have a reliable failure scenario. On the other hand this
may be a little bit too much as you are just in a testing phase. So
all I can say is that the Toltec connector has proven rather reliable
in my hands.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
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>
> Volker
>
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