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#9 Calendar support for Evolution
Currently the calendar part of Evolution does not work with caldav. It is perfectly true that Evolution seems to do some not-so-nice things in order to obtain data from caldav, however I think DavMail could be improved to support the way Evolution accesses caldav. Since Evolution is tightly integrated with the Gnome desktop it would provide better overall user experience than Thunderbird (even if Tbird is far superior in terms of speed and reliability).
Just one question : why not use the native Evolution Exchange support ?
Simple... it's just not working. Current Evolution support for Exchange07 calendar is abysmal...
More details on my previous comment: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583489
Ok, then do you have any details on Caldav failure with Evolution and DavMail ?
Here is a full log of the failure:
2009-06-10 11:18:01,181 INFO [main] davmail - DavMail gateway listening on Caldav port 1080 LDAP port 1389
2009-06-10 11:18:09,957 DEBUG [CaldavServer] davmail - Connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 1080
2009-06-10 11:18:09,967 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < OPTIONS /users/mihaimm%40organization.com/calendar/ HTTP/1.1
2009-06-10 11:18:09,975 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Host: 127.0.0.1:1080
2009-06-10 11:18:09,977 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < User-Agent: Evolution/2.26.1
2009-06-10 11:18:09,982 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Authorization: ********
2009-06-10 11:18:09,984 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - <
2009-06-10 11:18:09,989 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
2009-06-10 11:18:09,990 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Server: DavMail Gateway
2009-06-10 11:18:09,990 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > DAV: 1, 2, 3, access-control, calendar-access, ticket, calendar-schedule, calendarserver-private-events
2009-06-10 11:18:09,998 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:18:09 +0200
2009-06-10 11:18:09,999 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Allow: OPTIONS, GET, PROPFIND, PUT, POST
2009-06-10 11:18:10,001 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Connection: keep-alive
2009-06-10 11:18:10,022 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Content-Length: 0
2009-06-10 11:18:10,023 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - >
2009-06-10 11:18:10,027 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < PROPFIND /users/mihaimm%40organization.com/calendar/ HTTP/1.1
2009-06-10 11:18:10,034 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Host: 127.0.0.1:1080
2009-06-10 11:18:10,037 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < User-Agent: Evolution/2.26.1
2009-06-10 11:18:10,039 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Depth: 0
2009-06-10 11:18:10,041 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Content-Type: application/xml
2009-06-10 11:18:10,047 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Authorization: ********
2009-06-10 11:18:10,049 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Content-Length: 113
2009-06-10 11:18:10,069 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - <
2009-06-10 11:18:11,362 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Test configuration status: 301
2009-06-10 11:18:12,992 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - executeFollowRedirects: https://exchange.server.com/OWA
2009-06-10 11:18:13,082 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - executeFollowRedirects: /OWA/ redirectCount:1
2009-06-10 11:18:13,668 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - executeFollowRedirects: https://exchange.server.com/owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=https://exchange.server.com/OWA/&reason=0 redirectCount:2
2009-06-10 11:18:14,497 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Form based authentication detected
2009-06-10 11:18:14,542 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Detected script based logon, redirect to form at /owa/auth/logon.aspx?replaceCurrent=1&url=https%3a%2f%2fexchange.server.com%2fOWA%2f
2009-06-10 11:18:14,542 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - executeFollowRedirects: /owa/auth/logon.aspx?replaceCurrent=1&url=https%3a%2f%2fexchange.server.com%2fOWA%2f
2009-06-10 11:18:14,740 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - executeFollowRedirects: /owa/auth/owaauth.dll
2009-06-10 11:18:14,883 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - executeFollowRedirects: https://exchange.server.com/OWA/ redirectCount:1
2009-06-10 11:18:15,618 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Current user email is mihaimm@organization.com, mailPath is /exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/
2009-06-10 11:18:16,012 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Inbox URL : https://exchange.server.com/exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/Inbox Trash URL : https://exchange.server.com/exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/Deleted Items Sent URL : https://exchange.server.com/exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/Sent Items Send URL : https://exchange.server.com/exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/##DavMailSubmissionURI##/ Drafts URL : https://exchange.server.com/exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/Drafts Calendar URL : https://exchange.server.com/exchange/mihaimm@organization.com/Calendar
2009-06-10 11:18:16,013 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Session davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession@24e801 created
2009-06-10 11:18:16,013 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession - Created new session: davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession@24e801
2009-06-10 11:18:16,018 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
2009-06-10 11:18:16,019 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Server: DavMail Gateway
2009-06-10 11:18:16,019 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > DAV: 1, 2, 3, access-control, calendar-access, ticket, calendar-schedule, calendarserver-private-events
2009-06-10 11:18:16,019 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:18:16 +0200
2009-06-10 11:18:16,019 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Transfer-Encoding: chunked
2009-06-10 11:18:16,019 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
2009-06-10 11:18:16,020 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Connection: keep-alive
2009-06-10 11:18:16,020 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - >
2009-06-10 11:18:16,286 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > 17b
2009-06-10 11:18:16,287 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - >
2009-06-10 11:18:16,287 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > 0
2009-06-10 11:18:16,288 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - >
2009-06-10 11:18:16,297 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < REPORT /users/mihaimm%40organization.com/calendar/ HTTP/1.1
2009-06-10 11:18:16,301 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Host: 127.0.0.1:1080
2009-06-10 11:18:16,303 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < User-Agent: Evolution/2.26.1
2009-06-10 11:18:16,305 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Depth: 1
2009-06-10 11:18:16,310 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Content-Type: application/xml
2009-06-10 11:18:16,314 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Authorization: ********
2009-06-10 11:18:16,316 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - < Content-Length: 255
2009-06-10 11:18:16,318 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - <
2009-06-10 11:18:16,594 ERROR [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - 404 Resource Not Found
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException
at davmail.http.DavGatewayHttpClientFacade.buildHttpException(DavGatewayHttpClientFacade.java:259)
at davmail.http.DavGatewayHttpClientFacade.executeMethod(DavGatewayHttpClientFacade.java:232)
at davmail.http.DavGatewayHttpClientFacade.executeSearchMethod(DavGatewayHttpClientFacade.java:189)
at davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession.getEvents(ExchangeSession.java:1252)
at davmail.exchange.ExchangeSession.getAllEvents(ExchangeSession.java:1247)
at davmail.caldav.CaldavConnection.reportEvents(CaldavConnection.java:461)
at davmail.caldav.CaldavConnection.handleRequest(CaldavConnection.java:238)
at davmail.caldav.CaldavConnection.run(CaldavConnection.java:135)
2009-06-10 11:18:16,603 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
2009-06-10 11:18:16,603 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Server: DavMail Gateway
2009-06-10 11:18:16,603 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > DAV: 1, 2, 3, access-control, calendar-access, ticket, calendar-schedule, calendarserver-private-events
2009-06-10 11:18:16,604 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:18:16 +0200
2009-06-10 11:18:16,604 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
2009-06-10 11:18:16,604 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Connection: close
2009-06-10 11:18:16,604 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - > Content-Length: 43
2009-06-10 11:18:16,604 DEBUG [CaldavConnection-42999] davmail - >
a notable difference (at least from the logs) would be the:
davmail - < REPORT /users/mihaimm%40organization.com/calendar/ HTTP/1.1
davmail - < Host: 127.0.0.1:1080
davmail - < User-Agent: Evolution/2.26.1
davmail - < Depth: 1
davmail - < Content-Type: application/xml
davmail - < Authorization: ********
davmail - < Content-Length: 255
as opposed to:
davmail - < REPORT /users/mihaimm@organization.com/calendar/ HTTP/1.1
davmail - < Host: 127.0.0.1:1080
davmail - < User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090409 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21
davmail - < Accept: text/xml
davmail - < Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
davmail - < Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
davmail - < Accept-Charset: utf-8,*;q=0.1
davmail - < Keep-Alive: 300
davmail - < Connection: keep-alive
davmail - < Content-Length: 278
davmail - < Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
davmail - < Depth: 1
davmail - < Authorization: ********
OK... I don't know what the problem was but... I'm testing with the svn/trunk code and it works. This is excellent for me, thank you very much.
Fixed in 3.3.0b1