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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:sync-
> [email protected]] 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 +



> > 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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