diff --git a/docs/supported.rst b/docs/supported.rst index b3843f2..08d9f94 100644 --- a/docs/supported.rst +++ b/docs/supported.rst @@ -195,27 +195,27 @@ Problems: DavMail (Exchange, Outlook) --------------------------- -Using vdirsyncer with DavMail_ is possible, but you might get confronted with -weird errors coming from old Exchange servers, malformed calendar entries with -special characters and/or using an old DavMail version. +DavMail_ is a proxy program that allows you to use Card- and CalDAV clients +with Outlook. That allows you to use vdirsyncer with Outlook. + +In practice your success with DavMail may wildly vary. Depending on your +Exchange server you might get confronted with weird errors of all sorts +(including data-loss). **Make absolutely sure you use the latest DavMail**:: [storage outlook] type = "caldav" - url = "http://localhost:1080/" + url = "http://localhost:1080/users/user@example.com/calendar/" username = "user@example.com" password = ... - Older versions of DavMail handle URLs case-insensitively. See :gh:`144`. -- DavMail is handling old broken events very poorly. In such cases the - `Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook +- DavMail is handling malformed data on the Exchange server very poorly. In + such cases the `Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook `_ might help. -If you encounter any problems, do report them to me, but it's probably not -vdirsyncer's fault. - .. _DavMail: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ Baikal