[sync] Outlook Sync

[Deven Phillips]

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Deven

Deven Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I don't know if this has been reported or not, seeing as there seems 
> to be no search for the archives... Here's the issue.
>
> User has Outlook, appointment entries have a recurrence of "Recurs 8 
> times". This is not parsed by Horde properly, and as such the events 
> show up in Horde as recurring forever.
>
> The offending portion of the iCal data is as follows:
>
> <Data><![CDATA[BEGIN:VCALENDAR^M
> VERSION:1.0^M
> BEGIN:VEVENT^M
> SUMMARY:Event Summary^M
> DTSTART:20060403T210000Z^M
> DTEND:20060403T220000Z^M
> CLASS:PUBLIC^M
> AALARM:20060403T170000Z;;0;reminder^M
> RRULE:W1 MO TU WE TH FR 20060410T040000Z #6^M
> END:VEVENT^M
> END:VCALENDAR^M
> ]]></Data>
>
> It appears that the RRULE entry specifies the recurrence to be every 1 
> week on Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr and recur for a total of 6 instances. I am trying 
> to determine if this is correct by checking references on-line.
>
> Deven Phillips, CISSP, CCNA
> Systems Administrator
> Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp.
>