Calendar app is working now. This problem is the Contacts app, and it looks like an Apple problem based on what I’ve seen in a number of forums. 

I’m running Mac OS El Capitan, 10.11.6, and Contacts version 9.0 (1679.10).

John

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John Wilkes
john@wilkes.com

My life has been a series of tragedies and
triumphs, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.



> On Mar 18, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Surgemail Support (Marijn) <surgemail-support@netwinsite.com> wrote:
> 
> Let me know which version of OSX and the Apple Calender app are you using and I'll run some tests to see if it will work for me here on my testbox :-)
> 
> Ah and drop us your surgemail.ini thanks (offlist).
> 
> Marijn 
>  
> On Friday 16/03/2018 at 6:34 pm, John Wilkes wrote: 
>> I have the SurgeMail address book set up for CardDAV, and it is happily synchronizing to various Android devices and Thunderbird on Linux, but the Mac Contacts app stubbornly refuses to sync.. SurgeMail address book sync worked on previous Mac OS versions.
>> 
>> I’ve tried various incantations in the Contacts accounts setup. It’s authenticating successfully according to what I see in abk.log, so I think the problem lies in the server path. Here’s an extract from the log file:
>> 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] Sabre ABK 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] need auth beforeMethod [PROPFIND-addressbooks/john@wilkes.com/Personal] 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] NWAUTH user=john@wilkes.com pass={hidden} hash=e4b70eb5ca725e140865d07c8b9fe292 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] NWAUTH Cached login expired (john@wilkes.com) age=3/1800 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] No cached login, trying IMAP 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] NWAUTH imap login SUCCESS (john@wilkes.com) 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] NWAUTH authorised=[YES] 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] Authentication SUCCESS 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] validating db entries :-) 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] principal already found 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] NWAUTH Principals Validated 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] login cache updated for john@wilkes.com 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] NWAUTH Authentication cached Validated 
>> 03/16/18 05:04:12 [12648] Sabre ABK END 
>> 
>> A web search finds that lots of people have been unable to get CardDAV working with Mac Contacts. Most are using Apache OwnCloud. It was suggested that a redirect is needed: /.well-known/carddav ==> /owncloud/remote.php/carddav. I have a similar rule in g_url_redirect: from /.well-known/carddav to /abk.
>> 
>> I’ve specified port 7443 on my server and ssl required in the Mac Contacts server config, and the server path is /addressbooks/john@wilkes.com/Personal..
>> 
>> If I point my browser to myserver.mydomain:7443/abk/addressbooks/john%40wilkes.com I see a bunch of vcf files for my contacts.
>> 
>> As I said at the beginning, SurgeMail address book sync is working on Android devices and Thunderbird, so I don’t think the problem is on the SurgeMail side.
>> 
>> This is yet another sign that I should dump the Mac and move to a Linux system!
>> 
>> -- 
>> John Wilkes
>> john@wilkes.com
>> 
>> My life has been a series of tragedies and
>> triumphs, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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