Fastmail staff: I may have discovered a bug

jer39lms · 17 May 2015, 02:19 PM

Hi,

I tried saving an Outlook Calendar today in .ics format in order to import it to fastmail. This largely worked, but:

I have a number of repeating appointments that get tripped up:

Picture this - I create a repeating appt every Wednesday morning that says "sales meeting." This repeats indefinitely but every week or two, I receive updated information as to who the meeting is with. What I've been doing up to now, is in outlook, I would double click on the "sales meeting" appt and open it as its own occurrence (i.e., not all future repeats) and then edit the subject to "Sales meeting: MIchael" or whatever.

Ok - here's where things get strange:

In the fastmail calendar web interface, all appts now show up and the migration is completely accurate EXCEPT: for the calendar entries described above. Instead of the updated "Sales meeting: Michael" showing up, it still reads "sales meeting."

But here's the weird part: I have caldav set up on my iPhone and on the iPhone, "sales meeting: Michael" shows up. And so, it appears that Fastmail has the updated information but only shows it on the iOs device through caldav whereas the web interface seems to have original repeating task and ignores the fact that it had been edited.

Hope that helps,

Jeremy

neilj · 18 May 2015, 12:36 PM

Please create a support ticket and someone will investigate; sounds like the data is correct, but there's a parsing error in the web api.

17 May 2015, 02:19 PM	#1
jer39lms Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 26	Fastmail staff: I may have discovered a bug Hi, I tried saving an Outlook Calendar today in .ics format in order to import it to fastmail. This largely worked, but: I have a number of repeating appointments that get tripped up: Picture this - I create a repeating appt every Wednesday morning that says "sales meeting." This repeats indefinitely but every week or two, I receive updated information as to who the meeting is with. What I've been doing up to now, is in outlook, I would double click on the "sales meeting" appt and open it as its own occurrence (i.e., not all future repeats) and then edit the subject to "Sales meeting: MIchael" or whatever. Ok - here's where things get strange: In the fastmail calendar web interface, all appts now show up and the migration is completely accurate EXCEPT: for the calendar entries described above. Instead of the updated "Sales meeting: Michael" showing up, it still reads "sales meeting." But here's the weird part: I have caldav set up on my iPhone and on the iPhone, "sales meeting: Michael" shows up. And so, it appears that Fastmail has the updated information but only shows it on the iOs device through caldav whereas the web interface seems to have original repeating task and ignores the fact that it had been edited. Hope that helps, Jeremy

18 May 2015, 12:36 PM	#2
neilj Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Melbourne Posts: 971 Representative of: Fastmail.fm	Please create a support ticket and someone will investigate; sounds like the data is correct, but there's a parsing error in the web api.