[Evolution] Bug#510936: evolution: CalDav + Google Calendar does not work

Mika Hanhijärvi miksuh at saunalahti.fi
Tue Jan 6 05:53:37 UTC 2009


Package: evolution
Version: 2.22.3.1-1
Severity: important

In July Google announced CalDAV support for the Google Calendar.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99355

Here are the instructions for how to setup CalDav calendar using IceOwl 
(Sunbird) 
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#sunbird

Evolution has support for the CalDav too, so it SHOULD be possible to 
use Google Calendar using Evolution too, but it does not worjk.

Steps to reproduce this problem:

1) create Google calendar account
2) Create new CalDav calendar in the Evolution, here is an example,
note 
that Username for the Google calendar is full email-address:

Type: CalDav
Name: Google
URL: caldav://www.google.com/calendar/dav/foobar@gmail.com/events
Use SSL
Username: foobar at gmail.com 

3) Close calendar properties window
4) Try to activate calendar, a password is asked

Calendar is not activated and you can't create any appointments etc to 
that calendar. If you try to add an appointment then you get error 
message because Evolution is not connected to Google Calendar.

5) Open calendars properties window again. 

Now you should see that Evolution has removed @gmail.com from username
and URL is total mess. 
Here is an example:

URL: 
caldav://gmail.com@gmail.co@gmail.c@gmail.@gmail@gmailc@gmail@gmai@gma@gm@g@@gmail.com@www.google.com/calendar/dav/foobar@gmail.com/events  
Username: foobar

As I said Username for the Google calendar is full email-address with 
character @, The problem seems to be that Evolution does not allow @ in 
the Username which makes it impossible to use Google calendar using
CalDav.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-4           simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  evolution-common       2.22.3.1-1        architecture independent
files for
ii  evolution-data-server  2.22.3-1.1        evolution database backend
server
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gtkhtml3.14            3.18.3-1          HTML rendering/editing
library - b
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libbluetooth2          3.36-1            Library to use the BlueZ
Linux Blu
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libcamel1.2-11         2.22.3-1.1        The Evolution MIME message
handlin
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9          2.22.3-1.1        Client library for
evolution addre
ii  libecal1.2-7           2.22.3-1.1        Client library for
evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-9    2.22.3-1.1        Utility library for
evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8  2.22.3-1.1        GUI utility library for
evolution 
ii  libegroupwise1.2-13    2.22.3-1.1        Client library for
accessing group
ii  libexchange-storage1.2 2.22.3-1.1        Client library for
accessing Excha
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration
library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgnome-pilot2        2.0.15-2.4        Support libraries for
gnome-pilot
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented
display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user
interface 
ii  libgtkhtml3.14-19      3.18.3-1          HTML rendering/editing
library - r
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer
- share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.11-1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnm-glib0            0.6.6-2           network management
framework (GLib
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications
to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.7.1-4           NetScape Portable Runtime
Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.0-5          Network Security Service
libraries
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpisock9             0.12.3-5          library for communicating
with a P
ii  libpisync1             0.12.3-5          synchronization library for
PalmOS
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library
for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management
library
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.4.1-2           an HTTP library
implementation in 
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-13       userspace USB programming
library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-render-util0    0.2.1+git1-1      utility libraries for X C
Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0         1.1-1.1           X C Binding, render
extension
ii  libxcb1                1.1-1.1           X C Binding
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes'
extensio
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.4-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension
library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.3-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension
client libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library -
runtime

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-plugins            2.22.3.1-1  standard plugins for
Evolution
ii  evolution-webcal             2.21.92-1   webcal: URL handler for
GNOME and 
ii  gnome-desktop-data           2.22.3-2    Common files for GNOME 2
desktop a
ii  gnome-pilot-conduits         2.0.15-1.2  conduits for gnome-pilot
ii  spamassassin                 3.2.5-2     Perl-based spam filter
using text 
ii  yelp                         2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
ii  bug-buddy                  2.22.0+dfsg-3 GNOME Desktop Environment
bug repo
ii  evolution-dbg              2.22.3.1-1    debugging symbols for
Evolution
ii  evolution-exchange         2.22.3.dfsg-1 Exchange plugin for the
Evolution 
pn  evolution-plugins-experime <none>        (no description available)
ii  gnome-spell                1.0.7-1       GNOME/Bonobo component for
spell c
ii  gnupg                      1.4.9-3       GNU privacy guard - a free
PGP rep
ii  network-manager            0.6.6-2       network management
framework daemo

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