9:21 a.m.
What is the status of syncing with contacts in an LDAP server? Can
syncevolution do that? The only reference I can find to LDAP in the Wiki
is not particularly encouraging!
I am considering switching from contacts stored in akonadi to contacts
stored in LDAP. But I still want to be able to sync with Exchange
(using ActiveSync).
Any experience or comments would be appreciated.
Graham
12:57 p.m.
On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 17:21 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
What is the status of syncing with contacts in an LDAP server? Can
syncevolution do that?
Not directly. You have to go through the LDAP backend in EDS. This may
or may not work. For example, SyncEvolution depends on UID+REV for
change tracking, and I don't know whether the LDAP backend provides
that.
This is not something that I have tested, at least not as far as I can
remember. Going through EDS can cause issues. For example, at some point
it was observed that opening a remote database (could have been Google
Contacts, or a CalDAV calendar) did not always report changes
immediately.
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11:40 a.m.
On 29/07/13 20:57, Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 17:21 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
> What is the status of syncing with contacts in an LDAP server? Can
> syncevolution do that?
Not directly. You have to go through the LDAP backend in EDS. This may
or may not work.
That's a shame. It would be nice to have an LDAP backend for
SyncEvolution, but as it doesn't exist I will drop this plan for now.
I will admit to being slightly surprised that no one seems to have
developed a general SyncML agent for LDAP servers. Some commercial
services seem to offer both SyncML and LDAP interfaces but my guess is
that they are separate interfaces to an underlying database. I might
look into whether something like Funambol will offer sync using SyncML
and access using LDAP.
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