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

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 22:49 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> 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.

        Hi,
the OAB (which stands for Offline Address Book) file contains the
information as provided by the server. Whether the pictures are there
depends on the server. They are not downloaded separately.

> How can I troubleshoot why it fails?

I can be wrong, but it's possible that the contacts didn't update,
because they didn't change, thus the fix in the sources didn't apply.
Try to locate the OAB file in
   ~/.cache/evolution/addressbook/<some-book-uid>/
The folder contains an .oab file, in my case:
   Default Global Address List-5.oab
Close the evolution, then check what evolution processes are running:
   $ ps ax | grep evolution
Kill the one which is 
   ...evolution-addressbook-factory-subprocess --factory ews ...
Then delete the whole folder for this one GAL book
   ~/.cache/evolution/addressbook/<some-book-uid>/
which will cause re-download of the GAL from scratch the next time.
Finally run (also as as a regular user) from a terminal:
   $ /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory -w
Then wait for say 10 seconds, to give it a time to register on D-Bus,
and finally run the evolution in the Contacts view
   $ evolution -c contacts
and select the GAL there. That will open it and download it. The
terminal will show some debugging information from GAL download (if it
is truly downloaded for offline), like:
   Ewsgal: Downloading full gal
   Ewsgal: Fetching oal full details file
and similar lines, with the last showing a statistic how many contacts
were recognized. There is no extra debugging option to provide more
verbose output from the .oab decoding, like dumping which properties
are stored in the .oab file.
        Bye,
        Milan