GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 337023
Evolution Calendar doesn't sync properly with Outlook meeting updates
Last modified: 2013-07-23 14:34:37 UTC
Please describe the problem: Meeting updates or changes that are accepted in Outlook Web do not show up in Evolution. A stale meeting remains on Evolution calendar, and I'm unable to change or remove it. Evolution seems to lose track of it. Steps to reproduce: 1. Co-worker creates a meeting in Outlook, invites me. 2. I accept the meeting from Evolution. 3. Co-worker sends an update from Outlook, changing the date/time of the meeting. 4. I accept the change, however this time I accept it from Outlook Web. Actual results: The original meeting date/time remains on my Evolution calendar. I'm not able to delete the "stale" meeting from Evolution. However, the updated meeting shows up correctly in Outlook Web. Expected results: Meeting updates should follow both Outlook Web and Evolution. Does this happen every time? I can easily reproduce this problem. Other information:
*** Bug 337024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not sure if this is directly related but I am using evolution-connector-2.6.3-1.fc5.1, recompiled with the patch from bug 349413, and am now noticing that items added to my Exchange calendar from other devices/programs will only show up after I restart Evolution. Let me know if I can provide any more information.
The "evolution-exchange" package only supports Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers. Newer versions such as Exchange 2007 and 2010 are not supported by "evolution-exchange". It is required to use the package "evolution-ews" (or to some extend "evolution-mapi") for newer version fo Exchange servers. If the problem/request described in this report still happens with a recent version of "evolution-ews" or "evolution-mapi", please add a comment to this report (and update the "product" setting accordingly if possible). There are currently no plans to continue the development of the package "evolution-exchange", so this report will soon be closed as WONTFIX. Thanks for your understanding and sorry that the reported problem was not solved in time in the package "evolution-exchange".
evolution-exchange only supports the older Microsoft Exchange server versions 2000 and 2003. The last stable release of evolution-exchange was 3.4.4 which took place a year ago. evolution-exchange is now deprecated and not under active development anymore. It is unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. Also feel free to reopen this ticket and change the "Product" field accordingly if the reported issue still happens with a recent version (newer than version 3.6) of one of those Exchange backends that are still supported. Please see https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.8/exchange-connectors-overview.html for more information on available backends.