Re: [Evolution] Sending ical event invites to Outlook users?

[Tom <tom prost-net de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 02.03.2016, 14:12 +0100 schrieb Milan Crha:
> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 12:49 +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> > I'm not very deep into ics and these calendar formats yet I attached
> > the calendar file sent out by evolution. Compared to other invites I
> > used to send through Thunderbird, there apparently is a huge load of
> > DTSTART fields appearing in there. This looks the same whenever I try
> > to store such an event directly as ical. I'm unsure but shouldn't
> > this appear in there only once? Or am I doing anything completely
> > wrong here?
>
>       Hi,
> that's all correct. The DTSTART you see there is part of the timezone
> definition, the actual event is between BEGIN:VEVENT and END:VEVENT,
> near the end of the file.
>
> It can be that the ownCloud server doesn't like the expanded time zone,
> libical 2.0.0 has an option to prefer "interoperable" timezones, which
> uses RRULE for timezones, rather than expand them this way. I cannot
> tell whether it's it or not.
>
> I would suggest to try the other way around, do configure your ownCloud
> calendar in the evolution (I suppose you've it done already), then let
> someone send an invitation to your from the Evolution (not from the
> Outlook). Then try to accept the invitation in your Evolution, passing
> the event into the ownCloud calendar. It should fail the same as it
> fails for your Outlook using co-worker, unless Outlook does anything
> odd with the event before passing it to the server.
>
> You can debug what the evolution exchanges with the ownCloud server
> when you run this from a terminal:
>    $ CALDAV_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory -w
> and only then run the evolution (the actual path can differ, it depends
> on your distribution). The console should print new information when
> you click "Accept/Decline/...", one of them might be
> a PUT request. The response for the PUT can be interesting, together
> with the information what was sent to the server (the PUT itself).
>
> As it's ownCloud, I'd expect the server logs can also contain some
> information why the Outlook request to store (PUT) the meeting to the
> calendar failed.

... in addition: I wouldn't take sequential events for test cases