Horde and SyncML

[nullpointer]

Any chance to get Horde SyncML working with Kolab. I found this in Kolab development Wiki: SyncML works SQL based. For the Kolab server an SQLite db is the recommended option. OK but how-to configure? Does it mean, that Horde can work with two backends in parallel - Kolab LDAP and SQL database?

[xehqter]

SyncML works with KoLab (sort of), I'm writing a how-to give me a day or two.

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Any chance to get Horde SyncML working with Kolab.

The current Horde release (not the Gentoo packages!) should be able sync calendar entries and addressbooks.

Both the Kolab version based on OpenPKG and the one on Gentoo do not yet provide packages that have this ability. As I'm currently working towards that it should not take too long any more.

I found this in Kolab development Wiki: SyncML works SQL based. For the Kolab server an SQLite db is the recommended option. OK but how-to configure? Does it mean, that Horde can work with two backends in parallel - Kolab LDAP and SQL database?

Horde is very modular. That is the reason for the many tabs in the config screen in Horde. Each of these tabs configures a different module. For Kolab the main backend is usually the Kolab driver (which is IMAP storage by the way, not LDAP). But for some subsystems it makes more sense to use SQL based drivers. This is the case for the permission subsystem, the history subsystem (which is a central part for SyncML) and SyncML itself.

Horde configuration can be quite complex so the easiest thing are certainly preconfigured packages. As mentioned above I'm going to try to provide these for Kolab2/Gentoo soon.

For Kolab on OpenPKG it should still take  a few months.

Cheers,

Gunnar

[Gunnar Wrobel]

SyncML works with KoLab (sort of), I'm writing a how-to give me a day or two.

That would be really nice! Thanks!

Cheers,

Gunnar

[xehqter]

here is the howto, let me know if I need to make any corrections / additions.
http://www.aplusperfect.com/articles/howto_setup_syncml_on_kolab

[nullpointer]

Jeremy, Gunar - thanks for your work on the SyncML howto. I followed the document and used Postgres as database backend. All Horde modules work ... except SyncML I can not synchronize, probably because I have errors in the configuration.

1. I use the latest Synthesis SyncML client and I always get the error message 'No SyncML response'
2. I am running over https with self signed certificate but I think it should not be any problem.
3. On the server there are entries in the /tmp/horde.log and /tmp/sync/... but I do not have enough skills to analyze the content. Anyway it seems not to work properly - I can not convert client_11.wbxml to xml (error msg 'Unknown Public ID') and server_11.wbxml to xml (error msg 'Bad Parameter')

Can anybody tell where to start bug hunting ?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

There should be a log file in /tmp/sync/. Can you paste that somewhere?

[nullpointer]

I played a bit more, but still not working. Error message (Synthesis SyncML, syncing contacts)

Sync failed: Invalid data from server (wrong URL)

Here is the log (user and domain faked):


DEBUG:  Backend of class SyncML_Backend_Horde created
DEBUG:  Started at 2008-08-18 23:00:37. Packet logged in /tmp/sync/client_10.wbxml
DEBUG:  New session created: bbfd615bef54544901bec413bdb9c5bf
DEBUG:  Checking authentication for user xxxxx
DEBUG:  Authenticated: yes; version: 1.2; message ID: 1; source URI: bd7d18a7ec9c2688bd0e44ef462f08ab347c7536; target URI: http://www.mydomain.com/horde/rpc.php; user: xxxxx; charset: UTF-8; wbxml: yes
DEBUG:  SQL Query by SyncML_Backend_Horde::eraseMap(): DELETE FROM horde_syncml_map WHERE syncml_syncpartner = ? AND syncml_db = ? AND syncml_uid = ?, values: bd7d18a7ec9c2688bd0e44ef462f08ab347c7536, contacts, xxxxx
DEBUG:  Creating SyncML_Sync object for database contacts; sync type 203
DEBUG:  Received <Final> from client.
DEBUG:  Handle <Final> for state Init
DEBUG:  Sending <Final> to client
DEBUG:  Return message completed
DEBUG:  Finished at 2008-08-18 23:00:37. Packet logged in /tmp/sync/server_10.wbxml

DEBUG:  Backend of class SyncML_Backend_Horde created
DEBUG:  Started at 2008-08-18 23:00:45. Packet logged in /tmp/sync/client_11.wbxml
DEBUG:  Finished at 2008-08-18 23:00:45. Packet logged in /tmp/sync/server_11.wbxml

[Gunnar Wrobel]

That log looks like some PHP errors have been hit. Any such errors in you PHP error log?

Cheers,

Gunnar