[horde] ActiveSync minor issues

[Volker Then]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Volker Then <horde40 at volkerthen.com>:
>
>> Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> On my sent mail folder I don't see the sender's name in the  
>>>>>>> folder listing, only the sender's email addresses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you mean recipient's email addresses instead of names, then  
>>>>>> yes, mine is the same in Nine and in Samsung email. Not sure  
>>>>>> that is anything Horde can do anything about though...
>>>>
>>>> Is that an issue of the protocol or of any client? This was also  
>>>> happening on iOS. I wonder why the client is able to extract the  
>>>> recipient's contact image from the contact list (of the phone, I  
>>>> guess) but unable to get the recipient's name (either from the  
>>>> phone or the mail header).
>>>
>>> Can you be more specific about what is happening? Is it the  
>>> recipient's name or the sender's name? Are you viewing it on an  
>>> ActiveSync client, the web interface, or does it happen on both?  
>>> Do emails sent from BOTH the web interface and the ActiveSync  
>>> client show this behavior, or just one of them? Does the recipient  
>>> see the email with the full name?
>>>
>>
>> More specific:
>> The behaviour occurs only in the Sent folder, on all mobile Active  
>> Sync Clients I tested so far (I did not test Outlook 2013 yet):  
>> Nine, Mailwise, iOS Mail (at least several months ago, before I  
>> switched to Android). In the Sent folder's listing only the  
>> recipients's mail addresses are shown. It only happens on the  
>> Active Sync Client. It doesn't matter from where the mails have  
>> been sent - either from the Active Sync Client or from the Horde  
>> webinterface. Only email addresses are shown instead of  
>> recipients's names in the sent folder listing. The recipient does  
>> see the email with his full name. Also in the mail view I see no  
>> information about the recipient's name on the device. I am using  
>> dovecot 2.1.7 on Debian wheezy.
>
>
> This appears to be a client issue. When sending the email to the  
> client, regardless of if it's in the send mail or not, the Wbxml is  
> identical:
>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        <POOMMAIL:To>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O         mike at theupstairsroom.com
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        </POOMMAIL:To>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        <POOMMAIL:From>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O         Michael J  
> Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        </POOMMAIL:From>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        <POOMMAIL:Subject>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O         Test
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        </POOMMAIL:Subject>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        <POOMMAIL:Reply-To>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O         Michael J  
> Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        </POOMMAIL:Reply-To>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        <POOMMAIL:DateReceived>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O         2014-08-06T21:17:04.000Z
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        </POOMMAIL:DateReceived>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        <POOMMAIL:DisplayTo>
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O         Rubinsky, Michael
> 2014-08-06T17:17:13-04:00 DEBUG: [24084] O        </POOMMAIL:DisplayTo>
>
> The "DisplayTo" data is ignored in the sent mail folder by all of  
> these clients.
>

Recently I sent this issue to the Nine developers. As of today this  
has been fixed. In Nine 1.5.1 "DisplayTo" is no longer ignored and  
recipients's names appear in the Sent mail folder. However, you have  
to resync the client so that older mails in the Sent folder already  
synced with your device show the names as well.

It seems that regular Exchange servers don't send "DisplayTo" and put  
the name in another field, since on a test account (outlook.com) this  
issue wasn't present. Perhaps that's why almost all clients ignore  
this field.

Volker