[sync] [error] [horde] contacts/list or contacts/listBy failed while retrieving server additions:Invalid address book - Found word(s) list error in the subject

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Feb 4 21:27:26 UTC 2010


Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at dada.net>:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sync-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:sync-
>> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Jan Schneider
>> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:28 PM
>
>
>> > The Droid stores/alters the numbers of American and Canadian
>> contacts
>> > into a +1-xxx-yyy-zzzz format and since my original (horde) address
>> > book has all the numbers in the format +1xxxyyyzzzz, this
>> > creates a duplicate contact on horde when the phone syncs back.
>> > Frankly, I
>>
>> No. That's what synchronization is about: it does *not* create
>> duplicates but updates existing entries if anything changes.
>
> Except that it's not updating the Horde address book (and I accept  
> this may not be Horde's problem).  It means I end up with entries  
> like this
>
> 			 	ALAN SISK	ALAN	SISK	 	+19174469952
> 			 	ALAN SISK	ALAN	SISK	 	+1-917-446-9952
>
> The first one is the original one.  As you can see, it hasn't update  
> the entry, it's duplicated it.  All I'm requesting is that the sync  
> code see those two numbers as being the same (i.e. to discard/ignore  
> ascii characters in a telephone number other than the/any leading +

This has nothing to do with the phone numbers. You would even end up  
with duplicate records if they were the same. The sync client is  
broken if it creates duplicates.

>> > What I meant was - since Horde already contains a SyncML server, it
>> > shouldn't be too difficult to point it to another sync server
>> (either
>> > another Horde one or a Funambol one), enter a username and password
>> > and sync server-to-server.
>>
>> Not too difficult? We'd welcome a patch then.
>
> We would :)  But not from me.  Trust me, there is no one in this  
> world who wants my code anywhere near something as pretty and  
> functional as Horde.
>
> SPB
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Jan.

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