Re: [Evolution] ews - Global Address List

[Ford Prefect <geopal hotmail com>]

Thanks for your reply, Milan.

I was not able to find anything like the OAB URL in the properties. Anyway, there is a checkbox to enable storing the GAL for offline use. Did that, and voila ... after a restart the list was fully populated! The GAL for our organization is not too big, so it is not a big deal to keep it that way.

Tonight I'm going to check this on the second machine I mentioned.

On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 09:10 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:

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

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