Activesync, eSync, z-push in current trunk of egroupware: Addressbook email mixup

[umehner]

If I create a new contact on a mobile client with an Exchange Active Sync (EAS) client and sync it to eGroupware, the values for email (standard/business) and private email get mixed up. The email address, explicitly set to private on client, gets standard/business/organisation in eGW.

This is tested with Windows 10 mobile (Outlook App) and an old Nokia phone with “ASVersion: 12.1”.
I couldn’t check completely with Android phone yet (tried with 5.1 and Exchange version 5.1.1 - seems pretty broken: could sync from eGW - but not to eGW, all emails are set to “private” on client …).

How is it supposed to work?
I know EAS has its weakest point when in comes to multiple attributes (phone numbers, email …) for contacts. DAV-based sync is much more flexible for this. But there has to be a reasonable compromise to hold contacts synced with heterogeneous mobile clients.

Cheers, Ulle

[Ralf_Becker_Stylite]

Hi Ulle,

thanks for sharing your experiences.

If I create a new contact on a mobile client with an Exchange Active Sync
(EAS) client and sync it to eGroupware, the values for email
(standard/business) and private email get mixed up. The email address,
explicitly set to private on client, gets standard/business/organisation in
eGW.
Unfortunately AS has 3 email fields: email1address, email2address and
email3address
We assign email1address to business and email2address2private. I have
not checked if the opposite assignment makes more sense for other
devices too. Assignment happens in
addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_zpush.inc.php line 58f.

Ralf

This is tested with Windows 10 mobile (Outlook App) and an old Nokia phone
with “ASVersion: 12.1”.
I couldn’t check completely with Android phone yet (tried with 5.1 and
Exchange version 5.1.1 - seems pretty broken: could sync from eGW - but not
to eGW, all emails are set to “private” on client …).

How is it supposed to work?
I know EAS has its weakest point when in comes to multiple attributes (phone
numbers, email …) for contacts. DAV-based sync is much more flexible for
this. But there has to be a reasonable compromise to hold contacts synced
with heterogeneous mobile clients.

Cheers, Ulle

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