Re: [Evolution] ews - Global Address List

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 23:46 +0100, Ford Prefect via evolution-list
wrote:
> What could be the reason for the two machines behaving so
> differently?

        Hi,
you are right that the shown contacts are those, which you searched for
before. It works this way, because you've disabled offline GAL. Go to
Properties of the EWS' mail account and check whether the OAB URL is
filled - that tells evo-ews where the Offline Address Book (OAB) is. If
not, try to press the Fetch URL button, which can fill it. Then, in the
Receiving Options tab, you can select to use Offline Global Address
List. Once you enable it nad pick the one you want to use, restart the
evolution-addressbook-factory process, to have the option fully
propagated in the backend. The easiest might be by running:

   $ evolution --force-shutdown

Since then, once evolution-ews downloads the offline GAL, you'll see
all the contacts in it.

The reasons why not to enable offline GAL by default are:
a) the OAB URL might not be always known
b) the offline GAL can be quite large.
Hence there's used the online searching with a view on the recently
searched for contacts.

        Bye,
        Milan