New version of `evolution` spams my entire office with calendar events
Description:
The issue is that when I accept calendar invitations, Evolution creates a duplicate of the invitation and then sends it to all the invitees of the original event from my email address. In practice, this means that my client has just sent out a whole load of invitations for bogus events to my entire department, which is decidedly suboptimal. Worst of all, my Windows-using colleagues are now feeling smug.
I'm using a "server type" of "Microsoft 365" (which is subtly distinct from the generic EWS one), via the evolution-ews
backend. After downgrading to v3.51.3, I still get duplicate events in my own calendar, but at least it doesn't email everyone in the entire office.
After digging into this, I was somewhat dismayed to discover that Arch is packaging the development snapshot of Evolution, not the stable version recommended by upstream, which is currently on the v3.50 series. Given how inconvenient and embarrassing bugs in email software can be, I really think it might be an idea to package the stable version, either in addition to or instead of the preview version.
A short-term fix could be to roll back the version of the various evolution*
packages to the v3.50 series until it is fixed upstream.
Additional info:
- v3.52.1
- Upstream bug report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2728