[Kolab-devel] [issue1436] kontact generates invitation with trailing comma in attendee name

[Bernhard Herzog]

New submission from Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de>:

We've discovered a new interoperability problem between kontact and outlook. 
Kontact can generate invitations with trailing commas in attendee names.  E.g.
the attendee line in the ical might look like this:

   ATTENDEE;CN=Lucky, Luke,;RSVP=TRUE;[...]

Note the trailing comm in the CN part.  If such a line is present in the ical,
outlook doesn't recognize the text/calendar email as an invitation anymore and
shows the raw text of the email.

A trailing comma can slip into the invitation if e.g. there's a trailing comma
in the contact information that was used when the attendee was added in the dialog.

This looks like a kontact bug to me.  AFAICT from e.g. RFC2445, the cn value has
to be quoted if it contains commas.

This is with kontact proko2.1.4 and outlook 2003 SP2 + toltec connector 2.0.9beta.

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priority: bug
status: unread
title: kontact generates invitation with trailing comma in attendee name
topic: kde client
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