Re: [Evolution] webdav contacts and Zimbra

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan opensourcedevel com>]

Thanks for the quick response.  I'll reply in the text - John

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:26 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> <snip>> IMAP and CalDAV are working very well in Evolution but Contacts have
> > become a showstopper on what could be a very large Evolution deployment
> > as email without contacts is . . . well . . . useless.
> > The first issue is that we are able to connect via webdav to Zimbra and
> > download the series of .vcf files but Evolution does not seem to
> > recognize them.  No contacts appear and there are no search results.  I
> > am guessing the problem is that the webdav plugin is expecting mime-type
> > text/x-vcard but Zimbra returns text/vcard.  Apparently x-vcard has been
> > deprecated in favor of vcard. 
>
> "WebDAV backend for addressbook is too strict about content-type."
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566330>
>
> > Is there any way to get the webdav plugin
> > to access vcard instead?
>
> No.
I assume if I apply the above patch and repackage my Evolution .deb
file, it should then work.  Is that true?
> > The second problem is the impracticality of downloading the entire
> > contact list every time one wishes to make a query against the contact
> > list.
>
> This does not happen.  It 'merely' performs a PROPFIND for each search.
> Although, that too, seem unnecessary.
<snip>
> No, that is incorrect.  WebDAV, properly implemented, is VERY efficient.
OK - perhaps it is because it did not successfully get the list the
first time that it attempts a full download each time.
<snip>