Re: Contact list syncing problems

Quoting Tim ODriscoll <[email protected]>:

> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <[email protected]>:
>
>> Oh. You are talking about contact lists. I had misread your  
>> question to be about address books. ActiveSync does not support  
>> contact lists in personal address books. When we can do, and I've  
>> seen some other implementations do, is to translate the name of the  
>> contact list into an ActiveSync category name and dynamically add  
>> this category to any contact contained in the list. Not sure off  
>> hand how resource intensive (or how much work this would be to  
>> implement) this will be though.
>
> Thank you for the explanation. That explains the personal address  
> book contact lists.
>
>> Exchange Distribution lists, however, ARE supported via ActiveSync  
>> but only when searching the GAL. Turba *should* correctly handle  
>> this case.
>
> I've put a test group in my GAL now and when I start typing in the  
> name in my mobile device's client I can see it searching and it  
> finds the list. However, it only retrieves one email address from  
> the list (my email address), when there are two entries in the LDAP  
> record (me and my test user). If I send the email anyway, only I get  
> the test message.
>
> IMP still works fine, and I can manually retrieve the complete LDAP  
> entry using my credentials through the 'ldapsearch' CLI. I've turned  
> on 'detailed' logging for ActvieSync, but the log file doesn't  
> (apparently) show me exactly what it's getting back from the search  
> with respect to email addresses. I just see this:
> 2014-09-16T14:41:06+01:00 DEBUG: [5682] O       <GAL:EmailAddress>
> 2014-09-16T14:41:06+01:00 DEBUG: [5682] O        [70 bytes of content]
> 2014-09-16T14:41:06+01:00 DEBUG: [5682] O       </GAL:EmailAddress>
>
> I've tried swapping the order around in the LDAP entry (taking care  
> with the string-length field) but ActiveSync is still not getting  
> the other email address out of it.
>
> What else can I try?

I'll have to take a more detailed look at this when I'm back in my  
office this week.



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