[horde] Problems with adding events to calendar from IMP

[Jens Grüntjes]

Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Jens Grüntjes <jens.gruentjes at ebira.de>:
>
>> Hallo list,
>>
>> after the upgrade to Horde Groupware 5.0.1 I'm experiencing several  
>> problems when I try to accept an invitation and add the event to my  
>> calendar.
>>
>> In case 1 the event is correctly added to my calendar but the  
>> answer to the person who invented me is not send with the following  
>> error:
>>
>> 2012-11-09T11:44:32+00:00 DEBUG: HORDE [imp] Fehler beim Versenden  
>> der Antwort: No From: address has been provided [pid 25778 on line  
>> 27 of  
>> "/usr/share/php/Horde/Core/Notification/Handler/Decorator/Hordelog.php"]
>>
>> This look like I had not configured an address to answer these  
>> invitations. All of my identities have valid From-Addresses so I'm  
>> not sure what to do now.
>
> Does the event organizer provide an email address in the invitation?  
> If not, it's completely useless.
>
>> In case 2 the event is neither added to the calendar nor the answer  
>> is sent. The error message below says that there is an invalid  
>> timezone:
>>
>> 2012-11-09T13:06:24+01:00 DEBUG: HORDE [kronolith]  
>> DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (W. Europe  
>> Standard Time) [pid 25779 on line 27 of  
>> "/usr/share/php/Horde/Core/Notification/Handler/Decorator/Hordelog.php"]
>>
>> As in case 1 the event is correctly added, is it possible that the  
>> wrong timezone is provided by the person who invited me and that  
>> this is not a horde error? I use the follwing line in Horde's  
>> conf.php:
>
> Short answer: yes.
>
> Long answer: "W. Europe Standard Time" is not a valid time zone  
> name, unfortunately iCalendar allows to make up your own time zone  
> names though and provide the DST rules with the event. We ignore  
> those rules though, because we simply cannot work with arbitrary DST  
> rules. No one can, so I doubt *any* client or server on this world  
> is really using those. That's why *every* sane client uses Olsen  
> time zone names when sending iCalendar objects. So: technically that  
> client might be correct, but it's still completely broken when it  
> comes to common sense. Assuming that it really uses that name, which  
> I cannot tell for sure unless you provide that invitation.

In which format do you want me to provide the invitation? I got that  
invitation from a customer so I think I have to pbscure some email  
addresses of other participants.
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Viele Grüße
Jens