[horde] How to prevent syncml from from combining multiple email addresses into one...

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:

> On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 11:06 +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I use syncml official client to sync contacts between horde with ldap
>> > backend and my android phone. My many contacts naturally have multiple
>> > email addresses. When I completely reload the device from server, I can
>> > see multiple emails syncing up correctly. But When I sync something from
>> > the device to server, contacts with multiple emails get their emails
>> > combined (comma seperated) into one email field on the ldap server.
>> >
>> > For the second time I had to go through my contacts and spend an hour to
>> > correct the corruption. Is there a way to prevent this from happening
>> > and still sync new contacts from device to the server?
>> >
>> > Regards.
>>
>> What is an "official syncml client"?
>
> Synthesis syncml client.
>
> http://www.synthesis.ch/
>
>
>> Anyway, without more information
>> about your address book mappings there isn't much we can tell.
>
> This is the addressbook that is selected for sync. Removed some data for
> privacy.
>
> $cfgSources['gollum.mehmet.sync'] = array(
>     'disabled' => false,
>      'title' => _("GOLLUM (Mehmet Sync)"),
>      'type' => 'ldap',
>      'params' => array(
>          'server' => '',
>          'port' => 389,
>          'tls' => true,
>         'version' => 3,
>          'root' => '',
>          'bind_dn' => '',
>          'bind_password' => '',
>          'dn' => array('uid'),
>          'objectclass' => array('top',
>                                 'person',
>                                 'organizationalPerson',
>                                 'inetOrgPerson',
>                                 'evolutionPerson'),
>          'scope' => 'sub',
>          'charset' => 'utf-8',
> 'filter' => '&(objectClass=person)(!(cn=admin))',
>
>      ),
>      'map' => array(
>          '__key' => 'dn',
>          '__uid' => 'uid',
>          'name' => 'cn',
>         'firstname' => 'givenName',
>         'lastname' => 'sn',
>         'middlenames' => 'initials',
>          'emails' => 'mail',

Having a single field for all addresses is exactly what you configured here.

>          'photo' => 'jpegPhoto',
>         'category' => 'category',
>         'nickname' => 'displayName',
>         'fileas' => 'fileAs',
>         'notes' => 'note',
>          'homePhone' => 'homephone',
>          'workPhone' => 'telephonenumber',
>          'cellPhone' => 'mobile',
>          'otherPhone' => 'otherPhone',
>         'homeFax' => 'homeFacsimileTelephoneNumber',
>         'fax' => 'otherFacsimileTelephoneNumber',
>         'workFax' => 'facsimileTelephoneNumber',
>          'homeAddress' => 'homepostaladdress',
>          'workAddress' => 'postaladdress',
>         'commonAddress' => 'otherpostaladdress',
>         'website' => 'labeledURI',
>         'birthday' => 'birthDate',
>         'anniversary' => 'anniversary',
>      ),
>      'search' => array(
>          'name',
>         'middlenames',
>          'emails',
>          'homePhone',
>          'workPhone',
>          'cellPhone',
>          'homeAddress'
>      ),
>
>      'strict' => array(
>          'dn',
>      ),
>      'approximate' => array(
>          'cn',
>      ),
>      'export' => true,
>      'browse' => true,
> );
>
>> Beside
>> that, it might well be the client that is sending a single address
>> field. Enable SyncML logging and see what the client sends.
>
> I looked into "/tmp/sync/data.txt" and I can clearly see that client is
> sending separate email fields, one for each email address. I'm not
> sending the file here for privacy reasons but I can send it privately to
> your email address if necessary.
>
> I actually thought that this is related to
> http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9554 and thus a known issue?
>
>> --
>> Jan Schneider
>> The Horde Project
>> http://www.horde.org/
>>


-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/