Sharing contacts

[BGC]

Hi All,

New to using mail-in-a-box and I have a problem.

I’ve installed the latest version and I’m trying to share contacts across mailboxes but can’t seem to get it to work.

If I create an address list and then select the sharing option in Nextcloud, I can see the shared contacts when I log into nextcloud, but when logging into roundcube, the user who I have shared the contacts with can’t see them, the owncloud contact list is empty.

Am I missing something here? It seems like I’m doing it right but admittedly I’ve probably missed something fundamental.

Best,
James

[BGC]

OK, I’ve done a little testing. It looks like it is syncing in one direction.

If I create a contact in roundcube, it appears in nextcloud.

If I create the contact in nextcloud though, it doesn’t appear in roundcube.
I assume this is the reason that nothing is getting shared at all, because the changes in nextcloud aren’t syncing back through…

Anyone know how to fix this?

[murgero]

Nextcloud is for calDAV only, roundcube is the main client for this. It might just be a bug, can you see anything in the logs?

[BGC]

How do I check the logs? Sorry very new to this type of mail server.

[murgero]

Just like any linux server, 99% of log files are in /var/log

Notably:

/varlog/syslog
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/mail
/var/log/dovecot
/var/log/nginx

[BGC]

Ok I’ll take a look, what should I be looking for? Sorry, it shouldn’t be under estimated how little I know about this stuff!

[BGC]

So, a little more testing and I’ve found. Contacts do indeed sync back from Nextcloud, it just takes a mightly long while.

But, contacts that have been shared, don’t.

Is there an easy way to make shared contacts sync? or another method of having a central contacts list?

[murgero]

IDK about a “central contacts list” - You might need to export and then import as needed.