Re: [Evolution] EWS Contact list error handling

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2018-04-02 at 17:50 +0200, Martin Dietze wrote:
> In my work environment I found that in my contact list on the Exchange
> server some contacts were always missing in Evolution and a message saying
> that no contacts were found was displayed.
>
> Since the contact list is not empty, but just the opposite rather big, I
> tried to track down the error by creating a custom contact list on the
> server and copying chunks of the original contact list to it. The problem
> in my case was caused by some contact groups in that list, so that whenever
> they were copied to my custom list that error would occur and - even worse
> - no further contacts would be read.
>
> For now I have solved that by determining the "bad" contact groups, not
> copying them to my custom list and making that list my default. This is of
> course not optimal since that list will soon be outdated.
>
> What I observed hints at some problem with error handling, since as
> mentioned above after an error occurs with one contact no further contacts
> are read.

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