Re: [Evolution] evo 2.30.1.2 tasks have mind of their own

[George H <george dma gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 10:51 +0300, George H wrote:
> > I am using the Exchange MAPI plugin, my calendar is not connected to
> > free/busy publishing site but it does get synchronized from the
> > exchange server that we are using.
> >
> > Is there any other information or tests that I can provide / conduct
> > to help debug this problem.
>
>        Hi,
> unfortunately not. Microsoft Exchange server doesn't support time set on
> Tasks, it can hold only dates (try setup a task in Outlook). There is
> nothing evolution-mapi can do with it, because even we would find some
> workaround, then for interoperability reasons it would be "for nothing",
> because other clients wouldn't understand our workaround.
>
> See [1] for more tech information.
>        Bye,
>        Milan
>
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc815922.aspx

Ah ok, thanks for sharing that. So this is a specific MAPI issue I
take it. If I was using a different connector then I guess I would not
have this same problem.

Well I guess I will no longer set tasks that are 1 day long unless
they span more than 24 hours.

Thanks for the help.