Ubuntu
address-book-app package

No CardDAV support

Bug #1445486 reported by Robie Basak
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This bug affects 12 people
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address-book-app (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

I'd like to sync contacts to a private server. CardDAV is an appropriate protocol for this.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in address-book-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sayonara Player Team (lucioc) wrote :

CardDAV support would be great. Especially for owncloud users.

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Sayonara Player Team (lucioc) wrote :

Any news about this?

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Sabin Iacob (iacobs) wrote :

well, you _can_ use syncevolution in a terminal to sync a carddav account manually, but it's pretty confusing to set up and the terminology makes no sense and you can't set up cron jobs on the phone and ...

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Sayonara Player Team (lucioc) wrote :

Yes, that's really impressing. But syncevolution gave me errors with my server and I tried it 4 times. In the end I had 4 phone books in my contacts app. None of them was synchronized and there was no howto how to delete them again.

But if you ignore this and the mentioned disadvantages, Android and Apple users goes green with envy when watching Ubuntu phone users synchronizing contacts.

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