GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 705704
When accepting a "proposed new time" meeting, it cancels meeting for other attendees
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:27:49 UTC
Outlook allows invited attendees to propose alternate times to a meeting. The workflow is the organizer gets the proposed time, and if accepted, the meeting is rescheduled and the invite request is sent again to the attendees with the new time. I just had this happen, where I organized a meeting and the attendee proposed a new time. I selected "accept", and it successfully moved the meeting on my calendar to the proposed time. However, it canceled the meeting for my invited attendee. Expectation is that the meeting invite would be re-sent with the new time to the attendee.
Thanks for a bug report. As you mention Outlook, was this with an evolution-ews account, by any chance? I ask, because the evolution-ews calendar works differently, the invitation/cancellations send is handled by the server, not by the evolution itself, thus it can be that the evolution-ews connector incorrectly instructed the server and caused this misbehavior.
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