[horde] Doubling emails-problem in Outlook 2013

[Patrick De Zordo]

Am 20.05.2014 21:43, schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
> Maybe if this idea doesn't pan out,  thanks.
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> mike
> Sent from mobile

Well I would be ready to go with the test.. ;-)
ActiveSync Server-VM could be pushed online whenever YOU could be 
ready.. I've prepared all.
Any timeframe?

Patrick

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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
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> Quoting Patrick De Zordo <patrick at spamreducer.eu>
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>> 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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