Hi, I've just installed a new machine and added my IMAP server and kolab agent to akonadi. It downloaded all resources but when I've started to edit some users I've noticed that the birthday was missing. Also entering it again resulted in missing birthdays (like it was never entered) on all other machines also using the same IMAP server with kolab. Checking the imap server also seemed to verify that no dates are stored inside the KolabV3 contact xml. I've also tried to change it from KolabV3 to KolabV2 format in the Kolab-Agent settings but then other data fields cannot be parsed anymore when downloading the newly stored kolab mails/xmls (for example the pictures). Interestingly the anniversary date is stored but not the birthday Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: create an imap account to akonadi (using KDE systemsettings or so) add a kolab agent with the default settings (v3) using this imap server press "create folders" create a new contact in the activated contact folder in kaddressbook add a birthday date and save it. Now open the mail on the imap server and check for the birthday information. I think this is the easiest way to check it without another machine/account to download and parse the contact information again. Actual Results: birthday is not stored on the server Expected Results: birthday is stored on the server I am using the packages from Debian sid on amd64
Diane Trout made some progress to get more details about the problem. The things can be found at https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2739#c6 http://bugs.debian.org/748614 To make it short: Some KDE component is generating the dates in date-only format but the libkolab* stuff requires them in DATE+TIME.
Kolab denies that it is a problem and KABC has to deal with it: https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2739#c14
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present? If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kdepim (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.