[horde] Default Addressbook issue

[Jamie Allen]

  Quoting Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>:

> On 01/23/2018 01:17 AM, Jamie Allen wrote:
>>  Quoting Jamie Allen <jamie at jsdckr.nz>:
>>
>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Zitat von Jamie Allen <jamie at jsdckr.nz>:
>>>>
>>>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Zitat von Jamie Allen <jamie at jsdckr.nz>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings, IMP Gurus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would appreciate any suggestions you have on this. Horde  
>>>>>>> 5.2.22 - our set-up is that we have two shared addressbooks,  
>>>>>>> and then individual addressbooks where email addresses are  
>>>>>>> automatically added.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem is that, although addressbook preferences list my  
>>>>>>> individual addressbook as the default, the mail preference for  
>>>>>>> automatic addressbook saving persistently sets itself to the  
>>>>>>> first of the shared addressbooks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I set the preference in Preferences - Mail - Address Books ->  
>>>>>>> to the individual addressbook. Log out and log in to Horde,  
>>>>>>> and check the setting - and it has reverted to the first of  
>>>>>>> the Shared Addressbooks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Very peculiar! Is there any way that I could hard-wire this,  
>>>>>>> please? It means that all of our users are ending up with all  
>>>>>>> my automatically added addresses in the global shared  
>>>>>>> addressbooks, which is causing some confusion...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yours hopefully
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jamie
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you change anything for that pref in config/prefs.local.php?
>>>>>> Is the correct address book actually saved in the database?
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks so much for your response :) No - nothing specified in  
>>>>> prefs.local.php
>>>>> - Which field is this preference saved as in the database, do you know?
>>>>> Thank you again, Jamie
>>>>
>>>> That would be default_dir.
>>>
>>> Thank you :) I have set that value by hand to the personal  
>>> addressbook, and here's the interesting thing :-
>>> 1. Autosave now persistently ends up in the right destination (hooray!)
>>> 2. The displayed value in the preferences shows the other  
>>> addressbook where it has been saving it
>>>
>>> Curious....
>>> With thanks, Jamie
>>
>> Greeting again
>> Actually, having checked more thoughly, if I change the pref_value  
>> of pref_name 'default_dir' in horde_prefs to a different  
>> addressbook, it doesn't make any difference (nothing changes as a  
>> result). Am I changing the correct field in the right place?
>>
>> With thanks again
>
> Does the user you are testing with already have a value in the  
> preferences backend? Or is that what you changed when you said "if I  
> change the pref_value of pref_name 'default_dir' in horde_prefs" ?
>
> Greetings
>
> I've tested it with two users, both of whom already have a value set  
> in horde_prefs; with the same outcome - picking them out with :  
> select * from horde_prefs where pref_name='default_dir';
>
> Jamie :)
>
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