[Kolab-devel] [issue869] Recurring event from Outlook causes insane freebusy

Wed Aug 3 22:25:29 CEST 2005

New submission from Gavin Hamill <gdh at laterooms.com>:

I originally mailed this to Joon directly, but it may be a more general thing.   

I'm using Outlook 2000 with the gold release of Kolab 2.0 and Toltec Connector 
RC4 - I'm having extreme bother with recurring appointments.  

e.g. I create a new item in my calendar, add   
'meeting.room at groupware.laterooms.com' as a participant (their freebusy   
appears in outlook OK), set it to recur every Wednesday from 10th Aug onwards   
at 1300-1330, and press Send.  

I see the normal activity in kolab's postfix.log, and I get an email reply   
from kolab saying that Meeting Room has accepted my invitation.  

(Meeting Room is a 'resource' account Kolab user which auto accepts if there   
is no conflict)  

If I look at the source of the email in Meeting Room's 'Calendar' IMAP folder   
I see this:  

<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<event version="1.0">  
  <uid>040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000703F24604998C501000000000000000010000000A8D98009122ACA4D82E690FB3061AE32</uid>  
  <organizer>  
    <display-name></display-name>  
    <smtp-address>gdh at laterooms.com</smtp-address>  
  </organizer>  
  <summary>Wednesday lunchtime</summary>  
  <location></location>  
  <body>When: Occurs every Wednesday effective 10/08/2005 from 13:00 to 13:30   
(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London.&#xD;  
&#xD;  
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*&#xD;  
&#xD;  
&#xD;  
</body>  
  <start-date>1970-01-01T00:00:00Z</start-date>  
  <end-date>1970-01-01T00:00:00Z</end-date>  
  <attendee>  
    <display-name>"Meeting Room"</display-name>  
    <smtp-address>meeting.room at groupware.laterooms.com</smtp-address>  
    <status></status>  
    <request-response>true</request-response>  
    <role>req-participant</role>  
  </attendee>  
  <alarm>15</alarm>  
  <recurrence cycle="weekly">  
    <day>wednesday</day>  
    <interval>1</interval>  
    <range type="none"/>  
  </recurrence>  
</event>  

Note the start-date and end-date - they are complete nonsense :(((  

Now when I look at the source for   
http://freebusy:freebusy@groupware/freebusy/meeting.room@groupware.laterooms.com.ifb   
it takes 15 seconds to think.. and then I see this:  

BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//proko2//freebusy 1.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0   
BEGIN:VFREEBUSY ORGANIZER:MAILTO:meeting.room at groupware.laterooms.com   
DTSTAMP:20050803T154129Z   
URL:http://groupware/freebusy/meeting.room@groupware.laterooms.com.ifb   
DTSTART:20050802T230000Z DTEND:20051001T230000Z   
FREEBUSY:19700103T235959Z/19700103T235959Z   
FREEBUSY:19700110T235959Z/19700110T235959Z   
FREEBUSY:19700117T235959Z/19700117T235959Z   
FREEBUSY:19700124T235959Z/19700124T235959Z  

and so on, for every week until September 2005!  

Help! :)

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title: Recurring event from Outlook causes insane freebusy
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