[Kolab-devel] Calendar events sent to Outlook client do not work

[Thomas Brüderli]

Mat Cantin wrote:
> On 2013-03-08 4:20, Thomas Brüderli wrote:
>> In order to track this down, could you please provide us an ics invitation
>> created/sent by Outlook (the full email source)? With this we could find
>> the differences to the ones Kolab sends out and thus try to "fix" it.
> 
> I've attached two events. The first called Outlook-Invite.ics was sent from
> an Outlook account to a Kolab account. The event was accepted which
> generated the second attachment called Kolab-Accept.ics. As mentioned, this
> second event created by Kolab does not work with any Outlook version I've
> tried, it shows up as an attachment and the recipient cannot be accept or
> update their Outlook calendar with it. The same Outlook behaviour happens
> if the event is first created in Kolab.

The obvious difference between the two is the newline escaping in the
DESCRIPTION field. This was a bug in Kolab [1] and is meanwhile resolved.

Can you check whether iTip invitations from Kolab will work if there's no
multiline description involved?

Thanks for your help!

~Thomas

[1] https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694