Re: [Evolution] [ews] Duplicate address books

[Robert Munteanu <robert munteanu gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

Thank worked, thanks! FTR, I got 86 files which matched that string.

> 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.

Is this something worth filing a improvement request for ? If so,
against evolution proper or evolution-ews?

> > 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.


OK, got it.

Thanks,

Robert

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