Duplication of appointments in shared calendar

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress at lios-tech.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I have a *really* nasty problem with the duplication of appointments in
> a shared calendar.  I run a self-compiled Kolab 2.2.0 on Ubuntu
> 8.04/64.  My users (~35) use Outlook 2002/2003/2007 through the latest
> Toltec connector.
>
> The problem occurs on a shared calendar for which all users have write
> access.  Periodically, *all* appointments in this calendar get
> mysteriously duplicated, and in some cases they occur even more times
> (I saw up to 8 copies of the same one).  Sometimes the attributes of
> the copies are slightly different (e.g. the background colour displayed
> in Outlook is changed).
>
> I tried to follow (in imapd.log) who adds the "spam" to the calendar,
> and temporarily de-activated write access for those users, but
> apparently many of them seem to trigger this problem.
>
> Is this a known problem?  In Toltec or in Kolab?  Any idea how I can
> solve this bug?  It is somewhat annoying to manually erase the
> duplicates manually every day...

Kolab itself has no feature that would do automatic writes in a shared  
calendar. If Toltec is the *only* client accessing the shared folder  
I'd guess it is causing the problem.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Thanks,
> Albrecht.
>
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