Re: [Evolution] [ews] Global Adress List does not include image information

[Robert Munteanu <robert munteanu gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 16:29 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> > If I navigate to
> > https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=XXX&path=/people, then expand
> > the 'Directory' chevron and go to 'Offline Address Book', the people
> > entries have pictures.
>
>         Hi,
> okay, that looks fine.
>
> > I may have been inaccurate, I mentioned outlook.com as I log on via
> > outlook.com/XXX , but the EWS host url is
> > https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx, so this is
> > office365.com based.
>
> I see, it makes sense. When you open the account Properties in the
> Evolution, is the Receiving Email->OAB URL filled?

Yes, it's of the format https://outlook.office365.com/OAB/[SOME-UUID]/oab.xml

> I even cannot run
> Fetch URL on the above URL, it returns "503 Service Unavailable", thus
> the OAB URL is empty for me (but it doesn't mean much, due to my
> outlook.com account). I suppose you've checked
>    [x] Cache offline address book
> at the Receving Options tab and you clicked "Fetch List" and picked
> the right (and possibly the only one) address book from the list, as
> it's necessary to be done to have the GAL cached offline for the
> evolution-ews, and eventually get pictures out of it.

Yes, I've clicked 'Fetch List' and selected the only possible value
"Offline Global Address List".

> After a change a
> restart of the evolution-addressbook-factory process might be
> restarted, to take changes fully into the effect.

I've used these settings for at least a couple of months, but only
bothered to write the email now. My assumption is that the settings
were picked up, but the pictures are not downloaded.

> In any case, once you'll see contact pictures in the Contacts view and
> the GAL is marked for auto-completion, they will also be shown in the
> message preview.
>
> I checked the sources and there was done a fix for this in [1], which
> was for 3.19.90, thus your 3.20.5 version has it included. Either it
> failed in some way, or some preconditions are not met.

How can I troubleshoot why it fails?

Thanks,

Robert

>         Bye,
>         Milan
>
> [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-ews/commit/?id=a36e18ae1b98f
>
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