From 7457b909cb82e1dbe8eeeff88297f8d5cc99166e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Mills-Barrett <nick@beeper.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:52:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] messagix: set default params for contact sync

---
 pkg/messagix/syncManager.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/messagix/syncManager.go b/pkg/messagix/syncManager.go
index e48ec4ef..60009b8a 100644
--- a/pkg/messagix/syncManager.go
+++ b/pkg/messagix/syncManager.go
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ func (sm *SyncManager) UpdateDatabaseSyncParams(dbs []*socket.QueryMetadata) err
 
 var dbID7Params = `{"mnet_rank_types":[44]}`
 
+var defaultContactParams = `{"locale":"en_US"}`
+
 func (sm *SyncManager) getSyncParams(dbID int64, ch socket.SyncChannel) *string {
 	if dbID == 7 {
 		return &dbID7Params
@@ -244,6 +246,9 @@ func (sm *SyncManager) getSyncParams(dbID int64, ch socket.SyncChannel) *string
 	case socket.MailBox:
 		return &sm.syncParams.Mailbox
 	case socket.Contact:
+		if sm.syncParams.Contact == "" {
+			return &defaultContactParams
+		}
 		return &sm.syncParams.Contact
 	default:
 		return &sm.syncParams.E2Ee