Re: Problem with address book syncing

Quoting Karsten Schlimme <[email protected]>:

> Zitat von Jan Schneider <[email protected]>:
>
>> Zitat von Karsten Schlimme <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Zitat von Karsten Schlimme <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just realized that newly created contacts from my mobile phone  
>>>>> won't show up in "My address book" under "My address books",  
>>>>> which is selected for syncing with extern devices. Instead there  
>>>>> is a new address book under "Shared address books" with the name  
>>>>> "Address book from Karsten Schlimme [[email protected]],  
>>>>> which is my own mail address.
>>>>
>>>> This may be your email address, but more important this is the  
>>>> Horde user name which was used to create this address book.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it is! I use this mail address every time I log into Horde.  
>>> So it's like there's a shared address book between me and myself  
>>> which I can't access through Horde.
>>
>> No. You use two different user names. If you see  
>> [[email protected]] in a shared address book, then you are *not*  
>> logged in as [email protected].
>>
>
> Ok, now I see. You were right. I was able to access the address book  
> by logging in with the exact same username, but with a capital "K".  
> The contacts in this address book were not the same as in "My  
> address book", so I exported them and imported them back into my  
> account without the capital "K". After that I deleted the address  
> book, because I thought they were independet from each other.  
> Unfortunately this deleted my address books on both accounts. Thank  
> god, I had a backup! :) The sad thing: I couldn't find the newly  
> created contacts (with my mobile phone) in any address book. And  
> now, after I deleted the address books and had to recover them from  
> backup, the newly created contacts on my phone are gone.
>
> I don't think it's a normal behavior, that the login is case  
> sensitive and you are able to create more than one account with an  
> email address. How can I delete the other account with all its  
> content, like address books, calender etc.? Although I deleted the  
> address book of the capital "K"-account, it still shows up as shared  
> address book in my "normal" account.
>

You need to properly configure your installation for the fact that  
your authentication backend is NOT case sensitive, but your preference  
storage backend IS case sensitive. Hint: look in  
horde/config/hooks.php - the "authusername" hook.

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