[Evolution-hackers] Evolution Exchange invites not working

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist us>]

Hi all;

I've just started seeing a really disabling behavior after my latest
update to Ubuntu 8.04; before Tuesday or so things were working fine
(well, I was getting a lot of exchange backend crashes but those haven't
been fixed with the latest update either).  The problem is that every
meeting invite I get shows up as ONLY the plain text portion of the
multipart message.  The VCALENDAR attachment is not recognized and I
don't get the ability to accept/decline the meeting.

Not only is it not recognized as a VCALENDAR attachment, it's not
noticed as any kind of attachment at all!  There is no attachment button
on the email that would even let me save it.  But, if I use C-u and look
at the message source it looks fine and I can see the calendar part.

Also, my older system running Gutsy still works fine, even connecting to
the exact same exchange account and looking at exactly the same invites.

I've filed a bug in Launchpad, here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-exchange/+bug/228244

The changelog for the latest update (note that evolution-exchange was
NOT updated; only evolution-data-server, evolution, and
evolution-plugins) is below.  If anyone has ANY idea what's going on
please let me know.  I pretty much can't use Evo at work if I can't
manage my calendar with it.

Thanks!


evolution-data-server (2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Bug Fixes:
    - #274316: Also copy user tags when copying messages between folders 
    - #338330: (Novell Bugzilla) Internet Based Calendar Events Are Declined 
      By Evolution/GroupWise
    - #350143: (Novell Bugzilla) Fix a severe memory leak in 
      evolution-data-server
    - #358584: (Novell Bugzilla) Display of web calendars ignores timezones
    - #358644: (Novell Bugzilla) Retracted groupwise appointments should 
      disappear as soon as they are retracted.
    - #358650: (Novell Bugzilla) International clock applet is crashing
    - #381307: Run a single delta-thread to fetch changes from the server, 
      instead of spawning multiple threads
    - #473880: Fixed a few compiler warnings
    - #475616: Use recursive mutex
    - #502899: Fix a crash
    - #514300: Make sure we do the Inbox -> INBOX translation at the right place
    - #520532: Support migration from password file to keyring (lp: #178544)
    - #529339: Fixed a crash when searching with an expression
    - #530139: Do not ship .svn files
    - #530323: Don't free the same variable twice
    Other Contributors:
    - Load addressbook conditionally
  * debian/control:
    - build-depends on libgnome-keyring-dev
  * debian/patches/80_fix_double_free_in_contacts_backend.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new version
  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_fix_inbox_caching_issue.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new version
  * debian/rules:
    - build using the keyring since the password are migrated automatically now
        
 -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128 canonical com>  Mon, 05 May 2008 12:30:29 +0200


and:


evolution (2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (lp: #226925):
    Bug Fixes:
    - #334444: Add the attachments and draw the bar 
    - #338330: (Novell Bugzilla) Internet Based Calendar Events Are Declined 
      By Evolution/GroupWise 
    - #358644: (Novell Bugzilla) Retracted groupwise appointments should 
      disappear as soon as they are retracted.
    - #363908: Fix a crash at exit 
    - #368277: Allow copy & paste of email addresses from an appointment 
      to a mail message 
    - #378203: Return sanely if the path value is corrupted 
    - #382687: (Novell Bugzilla) Fixed a deadlock when downloading data on a 
      rather loaded system 
    - #451976: Try to find text/html part in multipart/alternative 
      when in normal mode 
    - #467892: Do not inherit search filters when opening messages in new window
      (lp: #181387)
    - #502913: Make Always carbon-copy (cc) option work again (lp: #198167)
    - #511337: Fixed a crash when simultaneously pressing the "show" 
      (lp: #192195)
      preview/arrow button on several very large image attachments in an e-mail.
    - #518103: Check online status from NetworkManager at startup 
      instead of using the last-used-state. 
    - #523402: Fixed a crash on paste event in calendar (lp: #220608)
    - #524121: Fixed a typo 
    - #528817: Fix a typo in the logic that caused Exchange Operations disabled
      on startup 
    - #529375: Look up in local address book for addresses to exclude mail sent
      by known contacts from junk filtering if said so 
    - #529893: Properly set type hint on tooltip window. 
    - #530245: Let searches work with labels again. 
    - #530672: Fix Evolution crash when viewing pgp-signed message 
    Updated Translations
  * debian/patches/62_fix_nm_offline.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new upstream version
  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_gfree_correct_variable.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new upstream version