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Comment	>>>> What would that get us that the current Horde API doesn't provide already? >>> >>> Today I discovered that it is impossible to access shared calendars >>> or address books using EAS. Apparently EAS doesn't do permissions - >>> so it doesn't expose shared calendars or address books. I use the >>> alternately the Horde native interface and Thunderbird to access >>> Horde as a back-end (using TBSync). For the reason above I can only >>> access the user's own calendar(s) or address book(s) - and not others >>> which they have been given access to. This would be a limitation for >>> all other ActiveSyns/EAS clients - such as mobile phone clients or >>> other calendaring software connecting to Horde. >>> >>> So that seems to me like a significant limitation. As far as I >>> understand, EWS implements permissions, so software using it can >>> expose shared calendars and address books. >> >> That's not 100% true. Yes, EAS doesn't support permissions, but Horde >> will synchronize any shared that the user has write access to. Yes >> still a limitation, but it is extremely unlikely we will implement >> EWS. > > Thank you - I wasn't aware of that. Still, there are plenty of > occasions when read-only access to shared calendars is needed - and > in those cases they won't show up through EAS. I wonder if it would > be possible to aim for Horde implementing access to read-only shared > calendars through EAS, somehow? I suppose it could pass changes to > the client, and just ignore or override any changes the client tries > to pass back to Horde, maybe? >
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