Kolab 3.2 Freebusy

[Paul Boddie]

On Tuesday 4. March 2014 11.05.09 Thomas Brüderli wrote:
> Paul Boddie wrote:
> >> I am assuming that is due to changes in Cyrus IMAP 2.5?
> > 
> > Cyrus 2.5 seems to support the METADATA extension to IMAP and
> > libcalendaring will use that in preference to the ANNOTATEMORE
> > extension. It appears that when confronted with METADATA support,
> > libcalendaring comes up rather short and cannot formulate commands that
> > Cyrus wants to understand. I imagine that somehow forcing use of
> > ANNOTATEMORE (GETANNOTATION commands) with 2.5 would probably restore
> > the working state as seen in 2.4, but I've submitted a patch to bug
> > #2862 that should at least get libcalendaring working with Cyrus again.
> 
> You can "fix" this temporarily in your Kolab 3.2 installation by adding
> the following line to /etc/imapd.conf:
> 
>   suppress_capabilities: METADATA
> 
> This will force libcalendaring to fall back to the (working)
> GETANNOTATION command until Bug 2862 is fixed and deployed.

This would be nice information for the wiki. I noted on IRC that perhaps there 
should be a wiki3.kolab.org like there appears to be a wiki2.dovecot.org, 
covering a specific version of the software.

As for fixes, it seemed that the libcalendaring package, which causes this 
problem, needed refreshing with later upstream source anyway, and the commit 
history seems to indicate that various things really need delivering from 
recent commits in order to not cause a fair amount of misbehaviour (like the 
pathological reconnect bug that I'd not seen before, perhaps due to a change 
in the method of connecting), so I'm probably going to upload some new Debian 
packages to an unofficial place and let people play with them.

I don't really have the necessary spare time to push changes into OBS, sadly, 
but maybe someone else has the necessary time and patience. My Debian 
packaging repositories are here:

http://hgweb.boddie.org.uk/Kolab/

I've also been looking into rejuvenating the Dovecot support - a subject of 
your blog a while ago, Thomas - and testing the metadata plugin that seems to 
be in Ubuntu but not Debian.

Paul