Re: Evolution Contacts Schema

[Stefan Palme <kleiner@hora-obscura.de>]

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:04 +0100, Bjørn Ruberg wrote:
> On 01/12/2011 11:14 PM, Peter L. Berghold wrote:
> > Now the trouble I'm having (now that the schema is set) is when I
> > attempt to add an entry from Evolution I get "error: other" which
> > doesn't tell much.
> >
> > > From the phpLDAPAdmin tool I get the error
> >
> > ...
> > 
> > This is not an error I've run across before. Is there an ACL I need to
> > tweak?
> What you seem to be doing to your LDAP object is similar to replacing the foundation of your house. You're normally not allowed to change the structural object class of an object. This is a limitation in LDAP (not in OpenLDAP but every implementation), it's not an ACL issue. Some LDAP clients may offer ways to work around this but it looks like phpLDAPadmin does not.
> 
> You claim to be adding an object, but the error message indicates modification of an existing object rather than adding a new one. For further assistance I suggest giving more details.

I guess, you (the OP) try to automatically "convert" LDAP addressbook
entries created by Thunderbird to addressbook entries as used by
Evolution. This will not work.

Maybe you can use Thunderbird to export all your existing addressbook
entries to VCARD or similar standard format, then remove all addressbook
entries from your LDAP server, and use Evolution to import the VCARDs
and store them as "new" entries in LDAP...

Regards
-stefan-