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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0002974SOGo Connectorwith external serverpublic2018-03-16 19:16
Reportermultani Assigned Toludovic  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Product Version24.0.7 
Summary0002974: CardDAV "categories" are not displayed as "mailing lists"
Description

I'm using a ownCloud server 7.0.2 with Thunderbird 31.2.0 and SOGo Connector 24.0.7

I sorted all my contacts into several groups on the ownCloud server. When I sync with SOGo Connector, I get all the contacts, the groups are reported as "Categories" when I display a contact's card in Thunderbird, but there are no "mailing lists" created in Thunderbird, which makes searching, filtering or sending emails to a group very, very difficult. It's also confusing since SOGo "Categories" really are second-class citizen, whereas ownCloud "groups" are clearly visible and a user would expect to get a straightforward mapping between these groups and the mailing list feature of Thunderbird.

Steps To Reproduce
  • Create contacts on the server

  • Create groups on the server

  • Assign some contacts to some groups

  • Sync the server address book on Thunderbird with SOGo Connector

  • The groups are not created as "mailing lists"

Additional Information

I've tried to hack the source code of SOGo Connector, but it seems that Thunderbird's address book is also very buggy.

For example, it doesn't really understand contacts without a Primary Email set:

  • they don't really appear in the list's emails (there's an empty line where the contact is supposed to be)
  • there are display-related bugs if a list contains such kind of contacts (like, all the contacts that appears after such an empty line don't show up in the contacts panel when selecting a list in the address book window). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248786
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choffmann

choffmann

2015-03-23 10:36

reporter   ~0008345

Searching by "group" (category) seems to work in vanilla Thunderbird for me (option in the search box). However, Thunderbird seems to lack functionality to display an overview over all available categories.

The good news is that there seems to be an extension exactly for exactly this purpose:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en/thunderbird/addon/categorymanager/

Maybe this works for you as well?

Btw, using a category as "mailing list" works by selecting all contacts of a category, even in vanilla Thunderbird. But I agree that this is suboptimal and the mentioned addon promises to provide a better solution.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2014-10-30 20:36 multani New Issue
2015-03-23 10:36 choffmann Note Added: 0008345
2016-07-12 12:05 ludovic Status new => assigned
2016-07-12 12:05 ludovic Assigned To => ludovic
2018-03-16 19:16 ludovic Severity major => feature