[SyncEvolution] [INFO] SoupTransport Failure

[Eric O'Connor]

> Which documentation did you follow to get started?

I'm going off of the man page for syncevolution.

> It takes two commands to set up CardDAV syncing: once for the target
side (where CardDAV is used as storage) and once for the local side
(with EDS, Akonadi or plain files as local storage).

How do you "link" the two? I now have a carddav config "remote", and an
evolution config "local", but how do I run the "remote" <-> "local"
combined config?

I think I need to do this manually, because I don't see a template for
Evolution mail.

I don't understand where in the man page it tells me how to do that.

I now am getting:

➤ syncevolution --run ev-local-addr
...
[INFO] @default/addressbook: using configured database=zoho-backend
[ERROR] sending message to child failed:
org.syncevolution.gdbuscxx.Exception: 1483751134.3343.16 at tara/addressbo
ok: datastore not configured
...

with the configurations:

➤ syncevolution --configure backend=carddav
username='eric at oco.nnor.org' password='xxxxxxxx' syncURL='https://conta
cts.zoho.com' zoho-backend addressbook
➤ syncevolution --configure syncURL='local://1483751134.3343.16@tara'
database=zoho-backend peerIsClient=1 ev-local-addr addressbook

I don't understand why I would be getting this message, because I
configure the evolution addressbook in the second line. 

Thanks,
Eric


-----Original Message-----

Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:20:34 +0100
Subject: Re: [SyncEvolution] [INFO] SoupTransport Failure
Cc: syncevolution at syncevolution.org
To: Eric O'Connor <eric at oco.nnor.org>
From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com>
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 19:30 -0700, Eric O'Connor wrote:
> I'm using the same username/password as I use successfully on my
> iPhone, and I can run the --print-items and get a list of vcf items.
> 
> 
> $ syncevolution --configure syncURL='https://contacts.zoho.com/cardda
> v/
> eric at oco.nnor.org/default/' backend=carddav username='eric at oco.nnor.o
> rg
> ' password='xxxxxxxx' sync=slow database='1483751134.3343.16 at tara'
> eric-contacts9 addressbook
> 
> $ syncevolution --run eric-contacts9
> ...
> [INFO] SoupTransport Failure: https://contacts.zoho.com/carddav/eric@
> oc
> o.nnor.org/default/ via libsoup: Unauthorized
> [INFO] Transport giving up after 0 retries and 0:00min

It takes two commands to set up CardDAV syncing: once for the target
side (where CardDAV is used as storage) and once for the local side
(with EDS, Akonadi or plain files as local storage).

> Perhaps one issue is that I don't really understand how syncevolution
> works. I think I want to sync between my webdav "backend", and my
> local
> evolution "datastore", using the carddav "backend".

You need two datastores for that and thus two backends, not just one.

> I guess when I do --print-databases, I refer to them using the thing
> in
> between parenthesis?
> 
> What is SyncML? I just want to sync Caldav/Carddav. Do I need to
> learn
> about SyncML? 

Not really - how SyncML works is an implementation detail. It's just
the
general concept (configure two sides, hook them up) which needs to be
understood.

Which documentation did you follow to get started?

The README.rst explains the general concept in the "Synchronization
beyond SyncML" section and "CalDAV and CardDAV" how to use that for
CardDAV.

The same content is also on syncevolution.org together with specific
HOWTO articles about other setups. Unfortunately the rendering there
got
broken in several places when moving to a new Drupal version. I'm not
sure yet what to do about that - abandon Drupal, fix its setup (a bit
out of my league), or fix each broken page - all not very attractive :-
/