MS Exchange .ics file not recognized as valid calendar objects by Evolution-Exchange (or Evolution?!?!)

[Emilio Tonelli]

"State of the art": Ubuntu Hoary with Evolution 2.2 updated on April 4th
10:00(GMT+1)AM

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1) Open Evolution
2) Create an Microsoft Exchange Account pointing to an existent Exchange2003
Company account
3) Try to open a meeting,apoinment or simila deinition sent by an Outlook users
(responses to you convocation included)....

4) Observe the bug: you will get a message like "The item in the calendar is not
valid" !

NOTE: before the last 3 official updates of evolution in the Ubuntu Hoary
repository, all things were well ! No problema with exchange compatibility.

Thanks,

Emilio

[Emilio Tonelli (e-tonelli)]

(In reply to comment #0)

No changes made by CVS release 20050405-0ubuntu1 yet !

It's blocking by job...

I'm trying to deploy a ubuntu solution into my company and it'll be used by 200
students and consultants...but We have only 1 exchange2003 mail server....

Fix this bug and I'll procede to present the distribution.....otherwise I can't
present an "invalid calendar object" :-)

> "State of the art": Ubuntu Hoary with Evolution 2.2 updated on April 4th
> 10:00(GMT+1)AM
>
>
>
> Steps to reproduce the issue:
>
> 1) Open Evolution
> 2) Create an Microsoft Exchange Account pointing to an existent Exchange2003
> Company account
> 3) Try to open a meeting,apoinment or simila deinition sent by an Outlook users
> (responses to you convocation included)....
>
> 4) Observe the bug: you will get a message like "The item in the calendar is not
> valid" !
>
>
> NOTE: before the last 3 official updates of evolution in the Ubuntu Hoary
> repository, all things were well ! No problema with exchange compatibility.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emilio

[Frank Merenda (fmerenda)]

I have this error as well. I am accessing exchange via IMAP. This all worked
until I updated w/a dist-upgrade on *approximately* 1 april 2005. The date could
be up to a week earlier, sorry for the non-exact date.

I dist-upgraded again today on 6 april 2005, and I still have the issue.

from my email recieved via exchange:

---
vCalendar interchange file attachment (meeting.ics)

The item in the calendar is not valid

The message does contain a calendar, but the calendar contains no events, tasks
or free/busy information
---

In outlook web mail the appointment does show up.

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have this error as well. I am accessing exchange via IMAP. This all worked
> until I updated w/a dist-upgrade on *approximately* 1 april 2005. The date could
> be up to a week earlier, sorry for the non-exact date.
>
> I dist-upgraded again today on 6 april 2005, and I still have the issue.

Sébastien has just uploaded evolution 2.2.1.1-0ubuntu4 (about 20 minutes ago,
thanks séb!) that has a fix for ics handling that looks alot like this bug. Can
you please try another update and let us know?

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 15035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14510.

[Frank Merenda (fmerenda)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sébastien has just uploaded evolution 2.2.1.1-0ubuntu4 (about 20 minutes ago,
> thanks séb!) that has a fix for ics handling that looks alot like this bug. Can
> you please try another update and let us know?

This fixed it, thanks!
I am marking as closed.

-Frank

[Frank Merenda (fmerenda)]

I'm reopening this bug, because none of the text that comes with the appointment
shows up in email.
The text does show up when I view the appointment in exchange web mail.

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

Dropping severity to major, this doesn't cause data loss, and the information is
otherwise accessible.

[Russell Cok (ruscook-oz)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Dropping severity to major, this doesn't cause data loss, and the information is
> otherwise accessible.

Hi all, another symptom I noticed today. When I create a meeting with
Ctrl-Shift-E, Evolution doesn't recognise it and put it in my diary. The
recipient got it ok, but I didn't. So it's not just receipt of meetings that are
affected it's the whole vcalendar/ics thing.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Thank you for the report.

Can this bug be recreated on the current version of Evolution in Dapper? Please provide us with steps to do so. Also, please provide a debug backtrace of the crash if possible.

If this bug is not a problem anymore, please let us know so we can close the bug.

Thanks again!

[Russell Cok (ruscook-oz)]

Sorry I know longer work where I have access to an Exchange environment
where I can test this.

 On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 01:06 +0000, Carthik Sharma wrote:

> Thank you for the report.
>
> Can this bug be recreated on the current version of Evolution in Dapper? Please provide us with steps to do so. Also, please provide a debug backtrace of the crash if possible.
>
> If this bug is not a problem anymore, please let us know so we can close the bug.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> ** Changed in: evolution-exchange (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

Kind Regards Russell
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[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for following up, Russell. I hope you're doing well.

Somebody else, please reconfirm this issue for Dapper.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Closing bug for now - please reopen, if the the issue still occurs.