Kontact on Ubuntu/Karmic blows up Kolab calendar

[Del]

For what it is worth I am using Kontact with Karmic and Kolab 2.2.2 daily 
(been doing it since 2.2.0 when I moved to Kolab). Kolab runs on a 32-bit 
Debian Lenny system (used to have it on Etch). Nothing is blowing up here 
(never had data-loss or corruption with Kontact+Kolab). Even though I like 
playing with fire and have all ppa's related to KDE open (which means I get all 
snapshots, betas and rc's as soon as the kubuntu-team compile them). The speed 
of bug-fixes generally in KDE is really amazing, you are actually hard-pressed 
to report a bug before it is fixed (so don't flood the poor guys with bug-
reports, I see them continue marking bugs as duplicates months after a fix is 
released).

Why are you running 2.2.0 by the way? I believe I remember there was a report 
on missing calendar entries on this list some time back, so you can try 
searching to see if there is some skeleton in the closet.

On the general side. If you are looking for a rock stable KDE, stay with the 
LTS editions of Ubuntu, or move to Debian stable, OpenSuse or Mandriva. I can 
also recommend Suse and Red Hat if you want support. I also don't see any 
reason to stay with an old version of Kolab. If you want smooth and hassle-
free installations, upgrades and back-ups, I warmly recommend a support 
contract with the Kolab Konsortium. It is money well spent.

Cheers,
Del

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 09:03:43 pm Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use the Kontact version coming with Ubuntu Karmic (version
>  4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6) to access our Kolab 2.2.0 (still) server.  Today I had a
>  crash of Kontact, which apparently blew up parts of my and a shared
>  calendar.
> 
> The symptoms: the crash left behind ~1200 appointment messages in the Cyrus
>  spool area which are all exactly 12 bytes large and contain just "X-UID:
>  0\r\n\r\n".  The cyrus log simply states
> 
> <debug> imaps[5648]: append_fromstage: message 555 added to
>  my-domain.com!user.some^username.Kalender [etc. etc.]
> 
> I could restore the broken stuff from the backup, but this effect makes me,
>  well, somewhat uneasy...  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks, Albrecht.
> 
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