Re: [Evolution] Cannot see folders, evolution-mapi

[Patrik Magnusson <Patrik Magnusson comhem se>]

Thank you for your response. I have tried some of your
suggestions today - though I didn't have the time to
try all of it.

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:15:59AM +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 01:07 +0100, Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> > I am unable to see any of my folders on our exchange
> > server using evolution-mapi. I can see a folder
> > called 'Favorites', but as far as I can tell, there
> > is no such folder on the server. There are no
> > error messages to indicate that anything is wrong.

> This one should print all raw comunication between evolution-mapi and
> your exchange server. It's quite chatty and it works for me. I do:
>    $ MAPI_DEBUG=15 evolution

This showed a couple of instances of:
ndr_pull_error(2): Bad switch value 0 at gen_ndr/ndr_exchange.c:40579
Unable to ndr_pull structure for EcDoRpc - NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER

But I could also see the folders being listed at one point - not with
names, but there was the correct number of them there.

I would be happy to provide further details, but I don't think I could
post the whole log without quite a bit of redacting because I don't
know how much information is in the hexdumps.

> > At one point I thought I needed to add the Inbox-folder
> > in order to browse it. This resulted in a folder called
> > New Inbox being created on the server - so authentication
> > is probably working from within evolution.
>
> That's confusing, because doing so with the MAPI_DEBUG being set may
> produce quite many debug information on the evolution console. 
Ah, well I didn't have MAPI_DEBUG set at the time I did this.

> > When I first started evolution and had added my account,
> > I realized that I hadn't yet done the imap-db setup
> > described in the openchange install manual. I removed
> > and recreated the account in evolution after I had
> > done those steps - but I'm not sure if there is any more
> > cleanup needed?
>
> I didn't run imap-db setup on my system, I do not recall I ever did
> that. 
More specifically I meant the steps on
http://tracker.openchange.org/projects/openchange/wiki/HowTo_Setup_OpenChange_Client
I think I wasn't able to get through the account registration before
I did this. But I was only trying for a few minutes.

> How do you compile samba4? I use the 'make samba' in openchange's
> checkout folder. 
Hmm, I only noticed make samba-git in the openchange faq, and that
didn't manage to compile. I then downloaded the 0.16 sources and
followed the steps in openchange's installsamba4.sh manually.

> Note that OpenChange 0.11 tar ball requires two patches
> to be able to work properly with evolution-mapi, namely:
>    http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/366
>    http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/367
I tried recompiling openchange (but not the evolution-packages)
with these patches, but the issues remained and the MAPI_DEBUG
output was similar. (For some reason I had to manually set
BISON=/usr/bin/bison during configure to avoid a make-failure
on ocpf.y - there was warning a few lines above, that the processing
of ocpc.tab.c failed because command d wasn't found.)

> I recall I saw similar issue some time ago, and the reason was that
> something failed, but the error was not propagated to the UI, nor on a
> console, thus it silently failed in the background. For me it was an
> incorrect server address, and I fixed it by there steps:
> a) run evolution and disable your mapi account
> b) close evolution and all its related processes (like
> evolution-calendar-factory, evolution-addressbook-factory,
> evolution-alarm-notify)
> c) remove ~/.local/share/evolution/mapi-profiles.ldb file
> d) run evolution from console with debugging on:
>    $ MAPI_DEBUG=15 evolution
> e) go to Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts-><mapi-account>->Edit,
> Receiving Options tab, and click Authenticate button; it should create
> the file removed in step c) and print some debugging information on the
> console too. Then it should finish with a message dialogue.
> f) enable the account and wait till it's updated. It sometimes happens
> that the folder list is not propagated properly the first run after
> account enabling (I was not able to reproduce it when trying to debug
> the cause), thus maybe another evolution close & run will be needed.
This is what I was doing when I looked at the MAPI_DEBUG output.

> It's also possible that your ldb library doesn't match the one in
> samba4, in that case edit script/installsamba4.sh in OpenChange sources
> and change:
> >     ./configure -C --prefix=$SAMBA_PREFIX --enable-developer
> > --bundled-libraries=NONE
> to
> >     ./configure -C --prefix=$SAMBA_PREFIX --enable-developer
> before invoking "make samba", which will build ldb library and others as
> required.
>       Hope that helps,
>       Milan
I think I will try make samba from openchange next. I will post
the results.

Thank you for your help.

/Patrik.