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

[Mehmet Giritli]

On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 10:29 +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 15:48 +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Sorry for the late reply. If I put 'email' instead, then I get only one
> > email address synchronized to the device. But yea, the problem I
> > mentioned can be avoided this way, I know.
> >
> > So, is there a way syncing multiple multiple email addresses over syncml
> > without the original problem I mentioned happening?
> 
> Yes, if you use the more specialized homeEmail and workEmail Turba attributes.


So, I was up for solving this problem finally but I noticed that it is
not that easy actually. The problem in the case of a ldap source is that
multiple emails are stored with essentially the same attributes, which
is called 'mail'. So In the turba backends configuration file, how can I
separate this mail attribute and assign it to an horde attribute for
each email address in it?

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> Jan Schneider
> The Horde Project
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