Hello
As we are talking about Thunderbird Addons for SOGo, I have found a few
points I wish to discuss, & hopefully find resolutions to.
Using Thunderbird 3.1.x and Sogo lightning-1.0b2.105/6i, and SOGo
Integrator-1.0b2.105/6i, I have a few issues. Mainly it is that the
calendar cache files data gets corrupted quite often for our users and
the only way to fix it is to delete the files and start Thunderbird.
These files are stored in the user's profile folder under
Thunderbird/calendar-data and consist of two files cache.sqllite, and
since SOGo lightning version-1.0b.106i, another much smaller file called
cache-acl.sqllite. Thunderbird normally takes about 10 mins to recreate
the cache files and is locked so nothing can be done with it at the
time, (for approx a 1.8MB cache file)
ie I think my problem is related to this bug report and mentioned a few
times separately by others on this mailing list
http://www.sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=1573. After looking at the
cache-acl.sqllite with sqllite browser, I previously believed that
there appeared to be issues with user permissions not tying up with real
calendar permissions on the SOGo server. I'm not a coder so can't try to
fix this myself.
So instead, I installed the plain Mozilla derived Lightning instead ie
1.0b2 (the only one that works with Thunderbird 3.1). What's interesting
is that this version only creates a single cache.sqllite file, no acl cache.
I strongly believe the the SOGo acl cache file is to blame for the
issues when new events don't get shown on the calendars as I never once
had this problem once with an earlier version of SOGo and addons from
around May to Oct last year. At this point the acl file didn't exist ion
the Inverse Lightning build
Other things I have noticed today. If you use the plain Mozilla build of
Lightning as above, when you delete the cache file and let Thunderbird
rebuild its calendar cache, it took took only 90s, instead of the 10
mins or so it takes with the SOGo Lightning - why ?? Also the plain
version doesn't hang the rest of Thunderbird; you can still write an
email browse your mail while the cache is being built with no slowing down.
The SOGo version of Lightning does add some very useful features ie an
Organiser of the event, and specific contact categories. I also noticed
that using the plain Mozilla version that you could attempt to write
into any calendar, even the ones you don't have permission to do so. But
when you try to save you get the usual 'Modification failed' message,
not particularly helpful. So there are downsides too
Comments? We're getting to the point we have to do something as whats in
peoples Thunder calendars isn't tying up with what's really on the
server - which its not good at all ....
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Regards,
Julian Robbins
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United Kingdom
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