Incorrect exceptions are generated for a recurring iCalendar message when an Exchange Server 2007 server processes an SMTP message that contains the iCalendar message part

An EXDATE property defines the dates and the times of the exceptions for a recurring calendar component. When a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server processes a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) message that contains a recurring iCalendar message part, the server only acknowledges the last EXDATE statement of a multi-line EXDATE property. In other words, the server ignores all previous EXDATE statements. The server also ignores the dates of the EXDATE property when a single-line EXDATE statement contains multiple dates. Therefore, the dates and the times of the exceptions for the recurring iCalendar message are incorrect.

Samples:
In this sample, the VEVENT component in iCalendar contains a multi-line EXDATE statement. Therefore, only the last line of the EXDATE statement is kept.

In this sample, the comma syntax that separates the date values in the EXDATE statement is interpreted incorrectly. Therefore, the EXDATE statement is discarded.

To fix this problem, install the following update rollup:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

For more information about the EXDATE property and the VEVENT component in iCalendar, visit the following IETF Web site: