Bug 164927

Summary:	IMAP groupware not properly configurable and usable
Product:	[Unmaintained] kab3	Reporter:	Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader+kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	wstephenson
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Daniel Mader 2008-06-25 13:33:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

In the latest kdepim packages for (at least) openSUSE and Ubuntu, the IMAP groupware function is broken: The configuration in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc has to be manually adapted:

Previously, the following has worked fine for me:

[IMAP Resource]
TheIMAPResourceEnabled=true
TheIMAPResourceFolderParent=<accoundID for cachedIMAP>

Now, I need this, to make it work:

[IMAP Resource]
HideGroupwareFolders=false
TheIMAPResourceAccount=<accoundID for cachedIMAP>
TheIMAPResourceEnabled=true
TheIMAPResourceFolderParent=<accoundID for cachedIMAP>

Unfortunately, kaddressbook has a severe encoding problem, then. All umlauts are displayed as two squares, and later after reloading from the server, as ??. 

Since I am German, there are many many entries a mess now. It also doesn't help to reimport the contacts with a different (i.e. not utf8) encoding:

* recoding a healthy backup VCF to e.g. iso8859-15
* deleting all contacts
* syncing this to the server
* importing the VCF
==> bam, all umlauts broken again.

It seems that kaddressbook is incapable of any encodings at all, only ASCII works.

See here, too:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/139433
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398285

Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:36:32 UTC

The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4.
Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product.