vdirsyncer and Baikal
The Problem
As my usage of Mutt keeps growing, I wanted to be able to query my addressbook from Mutt, hence I looked at using Khard + vdirsyncer.
I knew it worked because I did it in the past, however when I tried installed
vdirsyncer on my FreeBSD laptop, I got the bellow error message when trying
vdirsyncer -vdebug discover:
vdirsyncer BasicAuth() tuple is required instead
The Solution
I was puzzled and tried different methods, but after spending a lot of time searching for options, I stumbled upon this Github issue from December 2022, where someone had the exact same problem as me.
And it turns out that a lot of vdirsyncer has been rewriten recently, and some
features have not been reimplemented yet - which includes the digest auth I
was using in Baikal.
So all I had to do to "fix" it was to swich the Baikal authentication to
"Basic", and then I could successfully run vdirsyncer discover, followed by a
vdirsyncer sync.
Reconfiguring CardDAV clients
I was expecting all clients to complain and ask for credentials again, but only
Thunderbird did.
My calendar app on SailfishOS worked fine after the change, and so did Calendar
on iOS and MacOS.
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