[horde] Doubling emails-problem in Outlook 2013

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Maybe if this idea doesn't pan out,  thanks. 


mike 
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-------- Original message --------
From: Patrick De Zordo <patrick at spamreducer.eu>
Date:05/20/2014  1:35 PM  (GMT-05:00)
To: horde at lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [horde] Doubling emails-problem in Outlook 2013

Quoting Patrick De Zordo <patrick at spamreducer.eu>

>
> Am 20.05.2014 19:02, schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>
>> Quoting Patrick De Zordo <patrick at spamreducer.eu>:
>>
>>> Am 20.05.2014 16:00, schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>>> WTF? This worked for me perfectly for about an hour yesterday,  
>>>> and now it only works sporadically. The log shows the same WBXML  
>>>> being sent (we add the new email to the destination folder and  
>>>> delete the email from the source folder). If this isn't happening  
>>>> in a deterministic way, there is REALLY nothing we can do. A  
>>>> search on Google reveals that this IS a known issue in OL, so I'm  
>>>> going to have to say "not our problem" at this point.
>>>
>>> Me too, so I was sure this is perfekt! But..god.. this are the  
>>> badest news for this week.
>>
>> Ok. I have one more idea, but it is going to require a bit of  
>> surgery. Right now, we send the message ids as the raw IMAP UID for  
>> the message. This means the id's, by themselves are not unique  
>> across mailboxes. The specs state that the field for the message  
>> ids can be a string up to 64 characters in length.
>>
>> Further, when I originally tested this fix, I was using a test IMAP  
>> server - with only a few mailboxes and messages. When I go back to  
>> test this on THAT server, it works again. It's only on my  
>> production server that this fails. My guess is that this is what is  
>> happening:
>>
>> 1. Message with a UID of 221 is moved by user from FolderOne to FolderTwo.
>> 2. OL (incorrectly) automatically moves the message (maybe to  
>> provide quicker UI feedback?) to FolderTwo when sending the  
>> MOVEITEMS command.
>> 3. When OL receives the DELETE command from the server to remove  
>> UID 221 from FolderOne - it can't find it since it's already moved  
>> to FolderTwo and there are probably more than one message with a  
>> UID of 221 so it doesn't know what to do. I'm thinking that in this  
>> case, OL expects the UID to be a *unique* identifier across all  
>> mailboxes. So, regardless of what mailbox the email is currently  
>> in, OL will know where it is.
>>
>> To do this, though, we would have to perform some magic - like  
>> maybe prepending the folder's UID to the message UID before sending  
>> it and stripping it on the way back. Though off hand, I think this  
>> would cause problems in some commands when we don't already know  
>> the folder id. The other option is to store this UID -> OL UID  
>> mapping in the device state. However, this will increase the  
>> storage requirements.
>>
>> I'll have to think on this some more and play around when I get time.
>
> Would it be a benefit for you having a testmachine online for  
> testing out the ActiveSync Protocoll regarding DELETE and MOVE?
> Could try to get a trial license and use one of our servers/virtual  
> servers with a running product where you could try out a protocoll  
> tracing..?
>
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