Hi John
> On Dec 17, 2019, at 1:17 PM, John Stirling (j...@johnstirling.co.uk)
> <users@sogo.nu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 10/12/2019 08:56, Christian Mack (christian.m...@uni-konstanz.de) wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Am 09.12.19 um 10:35 schrieb John Stirling (j...@johnstirling.co.uk):
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>> Thank you for replying
>>>
>>> On 05/12/2019 08:39, Christian Mack (christian.m...@uni-konstanz.de) wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Am 28.11.19 um 18:56 schrieb John Stirling (j...@johnstirling.co.uk):
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I could really use some advice please.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using sogo 4.1.1 (@shiva2.inverse 201911280300) on Ubuntu 18.04.4
>>>>> with a mixed environment of Mozilla Thunderbird versions from 68 or so
>>>>> through to 71, and some phones, apple and android. We aren't a big site,
>>>>> 12 users, with maybe 8 phones connected.
>>>>>
>>>>> Today following an update to the server (Ubuntu standard update), and an
>>>>> increase to WOWorkersCount and PREFORK all day events have started
>>>>> behaving oddly (I don't thing it can be the config change, but since
>>>>> it's a change I'm mentioning it
>>>>>
>>>>> The behaviour is that instead of showing at the top of the calendar in
>>>>> Thunderbird, they now get treated as 24 hour events. This is a
>>>>> significant issue for us as there are a lot of shared diaries, and we
>>>>> use all day events quite a bit. The web version of SOGo works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's odd as it seems to be applying to all versions of Thunderbird, but
>>>>> there have been no updates to Thunderbird, so it appears to be how SOGo
>>>>> is treating all day requests as standard from Thunderbird. When these
>>>>> events are opened in SOGo web interface they do not register as all day
>>>>> events.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>> Do you use ActiveSync?
>>>>
>>>> Which timezones have you set on Thunderbird clients and sogo.conf and
>>>> user settings?
>>>>
>>>> Please give an example in raw form.
>>> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
>>>
>>> PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN
>>> VERSION:2.0
>>> BEGIN:VEVENT
>>> CREATED:20191203T173909Z
>>> LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T144043Z
>>> DTSTAMP:20191206T132229Z
>>> UID:97d0e002-4dc9-4a27-be06-4ef3f94b2b20
>>> SUMMARY:test
>>> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191207
>>> DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191208
>>> CLASS:PUBLIC
>>> TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
>>> SEQUENCE:3
>>> X-MOZ-GENERATION:4
>>> END:VEVENT
>>> END:VCALENDAR
>>>
>>>> One event created from SOGo Webfrontend which is not displayed as all
>>>> day event in Thunderbird.
>>> If the event is created within the SOGo Webfrontend it is displayed
>>> correctly
>>> within thunderbird and SOGo. If the event is then edited within
>>> Thunderbird or
>>> a new event is created within Thunderbird then the event no long displays
>>> correctly in either SOGo or Thunderbird.
>>>> And one event created in Thunderbird, which is not displayed in SOGo
>>>> webfrontend as all day.
>>> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
>>> PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN
>>> VERSION:2.0
>>> BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
>>> TZID:Europe/London
>>> LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T183904Z
>>> X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London
>>> BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
>>> TZNAME:BST
>>> TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
>>> TZOFFSETTO:+0100
>>> DTSTART:19700329T010000
>>> RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU
>>> END:DAYLIGHT
>>> BEGIN:STANDARD
>>> TZNAME:GMT
>>> TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
>>> TZOFFSETTO:+0000
>>> DTSTART:19701025T020000
>>> RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU
>>> END:STANDARD
>>> END:VTIMEZONE
>>> BEGIN:VEVENT
>>> CREATED:20191203T173909Z
>>> LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T132229Z
>>> DTSTAMP:20191206T132229Z
>>> UID:97d0e002-4dc9-4a27-be06-4ef3f94b2b20
>>> SUMMARY:test
>>> DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191207T000000
>>> DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191208T000000
>>> CLASS:PUBLIC
>>> TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
>>> SEQUENCE:3
>>> X-MOZ-GENERATION:4
>>> END:VEVENT
>>> END:VCALENDAR
>>>
>>> This is an iRedmail installation of SOGo, updated through Ubuntu apt
>>> upgrade.
>>> We do not have any outlook clients currently. We use android with webdav
>>> and
>>> imap, and have a few iPhones which connect using whatever dark arts apple
>>> use -
>>> so I don't think so, but I don't actually know.
>>>
>>> Timezone in Thunderbird is Europe/London
>>>
>>> SOGoTimeZone in sogo.conf is "Europe/London"
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>>
>>> John Stirling
>>>
>> Hmmmh...
>> Those are both generated in Thunderbird/Lightning:
>> PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN
>>
>> The first event misses a Z character at the end in DTSTART and DTEND in
>> the event definition.
>> currently is:
>> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191207
>> DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191208
>>
>> should be:
>> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191207Z
>> DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191208Z
>>
>> Without that Z (which means Zulu, which in turn means timezone UTC) that
>> event is in local time per standard, as no time zone is set at all.
>> So this event has a false time zone set ("Europe/London" from sogo.conf).
>> With that this event will not start and end at 00:00:00 UTC, but at
>> 00:00:00 of the set local timezone.
>> SOGo only accepts events in UTC as all day events.
>>
>>
>> The second event has a time zone set in the event, but in that timezone
>> definition it also has not set the Z character in DAYLIGHT and STANDARD
>> for DTSTART.
>> This is definitely a bug in Thunderbird/Lightning.
> So should I report as a bug to the lightning development team? Any idea why
> this suddenly started manifesting after an update to SOGo, on several
> different versions of thunderbird, without thunderbird being updated?
> Presumably SOGo had a workaround for the bug within its code which has been
> removed in an update?
No. The bug was in SOGo and has been fixed.
Francis
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