Re: [Evolution] [ews] Duplicate address books

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 23:37 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using evolution{,-ews} 3.12.7 on openSUSE 13.1 x86_64.
>
> I noticed for some time that autocompletion of contacts was 
> suggesting
> duplicate entries, e.g. the same display name / email combination
> multiple times.
>
> Today I finally bothered to look at the 'Contacts' tab, and I noticed
> the following entries under my EWS account:
>
> {SOME-UUID}
> {SOME-OTHER-UUID}
> {Contacts}
> {GAL Contacts}
> {Global Address List}
> {Global Address List}
> {Global Address List}
> {Recipient Cache}
> {Suggested Contacts}
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. How can I find out which of the 3 GAL entries to keep?

        Hi,
you cannot influence that that much, that's done "for you" in the 
background. There was a bug in evolution-ews which created these 
duplicate GAL addressbook each restart (it was replacing the old GAL 
with a new, sometimes left one behind). This is fixed [1] in your 
3.12.7, but it doesn't cure itself on its own, unfortunately. To have 
this cleaned up, remove the old account and enter it again (or 
close/kill evolution-source-registry and remove all the .source files 
at ~/.cache/evolution/sources/<ews-account-uid>/
which contain the "Global Address List" text (quotes for clarity only).
Then close/kill also other left evolution processes (ps ax | grep 
evolution), preferably evolution-calendar-factory as the last, if you 
run gnome-shell, because it will auto-start it again. After this 
cleanup there should not be any duplicate GAL books again. 
Nonetheless, you will still get duplicate replies, if the same contact 
is in the other books as well, like in the 'Recipient Cache' or 
'Suggested Contacts' books.

> 2. Are the first two entries ( UUIDs) expected?


Yes, these are new in Exchange 2013 servers. Evolution-ews asks the 
server for a list of folder and their types and then sorts them into 
groups. All book-type folders are added as Address Books, calendar-
type folders as Calendars and so on. There is no logic to disable 
particular sources completely, but in case of an auto-completion you 
can go to Edit->Preferences->Contacts and unselect some of the books, 
thus they will not be considered for the auto-completion.

        Bye,
        Milan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737773