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macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134186] Thu, 09 February 2017 13:10 Go to next message
Johan Gunverth is currently offline  Johan Gunverth
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I recently discovered that all macOS 10.12.3 clients that reinstall through Connect Account Assistant, get problems with CardDAV. The OS claims that the account already exists does not accept changes to the account that's populated in "Internet Accounts" by the profile. There is also no way to manually define the account afterwards. Same error "This account already exists"

Anybody else seeing this problem?
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134226 is a reply to message #134186] Sat, 11 February 2017 16:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Think Fixed is currently offline  Think Fixed
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Registered: June 2014
Location: Addison, TX

We have been seeing this problem for quite a while, but this only happens when we attempt to manually setup the global address list. I believe that this is a limitation of Apple's Contacts app, and not a problem with Kerio Connect. We were able to nag an Apple developer to fix this issue when OS X 10.11.4 was released last year, but the issue came back when macOS Sierra was released. The Kerio Account Assistant installs a configuration profile when you run it. Try removing that configuration profile before running the account assistant again. I'm sorry for the "me too" post, but I have been battling this for some time without any real success.

Howie Isaacks
Systems Engineer | Apple Solutions Consultant
Think Fixed LLC, Dallas and Fort Worth

www.thinkfixed.com

[Updated on: Sat, 11 February 2017 16:23]

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Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134398 is a reply to message #134186] Tue, 21 February 2017 22:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
anarvey is currently offline  anarvey
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Having lots of problems with Contacts in Sierra. The assistant and manual installs both fail to get Contacts working for cardDAV accounts and the Public Folder too. Kerio needs to fix this since more and more upgrades to Sierra are about to take place.
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134399 is a reply to message #134398] Tue, 21 February 2017 23:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Think Fixed is currently offline  Think Fixed
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Location: Addison, TX

anarvey wrote on Tue, 21 February 2017 15:54
Having lots of problems with Contacts in Sierra. The assistant and manual installs both fail to get Contacts working for cardDAV accounts and the Public Folder too. Kerio needs to fix this since more and more upgrades to Sierra are about to take place.


While Kerio has done a great job with making this work in the past, ultimately, this is an Apple thing. They keep mucking around with their implementation of CardDAV so much that it's hard for Kerio to keep up. I suggest sending a bug report to Apple. I did that about a year and a half ago, and I got results. Then, Apple broke it again in macOS Sierra.


Howie Isaacks
Systems Engineer | Apple Solutions Consultant
Think Fixed LLC, Dallas and Fort Worth

www.thinkfixed.com
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134403 is a reply to message #134399] Wed, 22 February 2017 13:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
SebStar
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I have massive problems with my Sierra clients to.
As Think Fixed says its an old Apple bug so first you should report it to Apple.
Another problem ist that Apple supports only one account for the combination of host_name and user_name so the Kerio Assistent uses tricks to get the accounts working.
The ticks doesn`t work very well under Sierra so I would recommend to also create a Kerio Ticket and send them your logs (kerio-connect-account-assistant.log).
My Kerio Ticket is still open and the logs are under review.
Because of the gfi-Kerio merge i don`t think this bug has a high priority at the moment
Cheers
Seb

[Updated on: Wed, 22 February 2017 13:17]

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Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134404 is a reply to message #134403] Wed, 22 February 2017 13:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Think Fixed is currently offline  Think Fixed
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One idea that I have tried is to setup an account whose only purpose is to give users access to the public contacts. We can use that account to setup the second CardDAV account using the Advanced account setup option. The server and path would look something like:

Server: mail.domain.com
Path: /cardddav/users/domain.com/.public

I just tried this again, and it works on macOS Sierra 10.12.3. The Kerio Account Assitant installs a configuration profile that forces this setting into the Contacts app, and that's how it gets around the limitation of only allowing one CardDAV account with your user's credentials. Try what I described above, and see how that works.


Howie Isaacks
Systems Engineer | Apple Solutions Consultant
Think Fixed LLC, Dallas and Fort Worth

www.thinkfixed.com

[Updated on: Wed, 22 February 2017 15:46]

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Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134428 is a reply to message #134404] Fri, 24 February 2017 09:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Johan Gunverth is currently offline  Johan Gunverth
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I see the same problem with G Suite and published address books (like public) when it points to the same server (Google).
Also; the trick with a different user to the same server doesn't work. Same "Account already exists" warning.
OS X 10.11 with working Kerio accounts updated to 10.12 doesn't experience the problem. I will try creating some configuration profiles with the Public Folder.

[Updated on: Fri, 24 February 2017 09:52]

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Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134429 is a reply to message #134428] Fri, 24 February 2017 10:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Johan Gunverth is currently offline  Johan Gunverth
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No. A profile didn't work either.
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #134434 is a reply to message #134429] Fri, 24 February 2017 13:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Think Fixed is currently offline  Think Fixed
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Location: Addison, TX

This works for me using a different account other than the primary user I'm setting up. I detailed what I did above. This is a macOS bug, not a Kerio bug. If Apple would stop mucking around with CardDAV, that would be just awesome. I'm probably the biggest Apple fanboy around, but this is just stupid.

Howie Isaacks
Systems Engineer | Apple Solutions Consultant
Think Fixed LLC, Dallas and Fort Worth

www.thinkfixed.com
icon5.gif  Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #147299 is a reply to message #134434] Thu, 19 December 2019 14:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Piff14 is currently offline  Piff14
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Does it work for anyone on Mojave 10.14.6 ?
Kerio support tells me I should upgrade to 10.15 but I do not want to (32bit support).
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #147302 is a reply to message #147299] Thu, 19 December 2019 21:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
j.a.duke is currently offline  j.a.duke
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Piff14 wrote on Thu, 19 December 2019 08:37
Does it work for anyone on Mojave 10.14.6 ?
Kerio support tells me I should upgrade to 10.15 but I do not want to (32bit support).
I don't use the Kerio Assistant, for starters.

I set up all my accounts in this fashion:

"Personal" contacts:
Manual setting
Username: email without domain (if you are running on a dedicated box)

Global/Public Contacts:
Advanced setting
Username: email@domain
Server Path: /carddav/users/domain/.public

Someone posted the graphic below a number of years ago and I've found it to be incredibly useful in helping me remember how to configure the contact account settings.

[img]/index.php?t=getfile&id=5078&private=0[/img]

Cheers,
Jon
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #147331 is a reply to message #147302] Thu, 02 January 2020 16:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Piff14 is currently offline  Piff14
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Thank you, Jon, and Happy 2020!

I manually created the account for Public, which worked instantly.
It also propagates any updates to the server, which does not seem to work for me with the Assistant setup.

However, it has the same limitation as the Assistant setup, which is that subfolders of Contacts are ignored. I tried to append the subfolder name to the server path, but this seems to have no effect.

Second problem:
When setting up the second account for the personal contacts, OS X gets stuck with "the account is already existing", querying the password again and again. I tried using user(domain.com) instead of user<_at_>domain.com (as suggested by GFI) for one of them, but it does not seem to avoid that error.

Cheers,
Philipp
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #147332 is a reply to message #147331] Thu, 02 January 2020 17:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
j.a.duke is currently offline  j.a.duke
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Piff14 wrote on Thu, 02 January 2020 10:02
Thank you, Jon, and Happy 2020!

I manually created the account for Public, which worked instantly.
It also propagates any updates to the server, which does not seem to work for me with the Assistant setup.

However, it has the same limitation as the Assistant setup, which is that subfolders of Contacts are ignored. I tried to append the subfolder name to the server path, but this seems to have no effect.

Second problem:
When setting up the second account for the personal contacts, OS X gets stuck with "the account is already existing", querying the password again and again. I tried using user(domain.com) instead of user<_at_>domain.com (as suggested by GFI) for one of them, but it does not seem to avoid that error.

Cheers,
Philipp
Phillipp,

If you log into webmail (aka Connect Client), can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing for contacts folders? I'm asking because I not sure what you are seeing/have setup.

I'll then test here just to see what might work.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Jon
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #147339 is a reply to message #147332] Fri, 03 January 2020 12:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Piff14 is currently offline  Piff14
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Jon,
I attach a screenshot (sorry I have to grey out the names as they would reveal my client's company name).
In the Public Folders section, we see Contacts (where also the GAL contacts are shown), and two custom folders (starting with "a") below.
On the server side, these 2 folders appear to be actually subfolders of the store/mail/domain.com/#public/Contacts/ folder.

Cheers,
Philipp

[img]http://p10n.net/tmp/WebClient.png[/img]
Re: macOS 10.12.3 and CardDAV problem [message #147340 is a reply to message #147339] Fri, 03 January 2020 15:34 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
j.a.duke is currently offline  j.a.duke
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Piff14 wrote on Fri, 03 January 2020 06:45
Jon,
I attach a screenshot (sorry I have to grey out the names as they would reveal my client's company name).
In the Public Folders section, we see Contacts (where also the GAL contacts are shown), and two custom folders (starting with "a") below.
On the server side, these 2 folders appear to be actually subfolders of the store/mail/domain.com/#public/Contacts/ folder.

Cheers,
Philipp

[img][url]http://p10n.net/tmp/WebClient.png[/url][/img]
Phillip,

Thank you for the picture.

I'll do some testing and let you know what I find.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Jon
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