I am running Scalix 11.4.5 on the server. I am running Thunderbird 3.0.3 plus the latest Lightning plugin. I am running this on both Windows XP and Fedora Core 11. At least one user is using thunderbird 3 beta on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. This does not seem to be related to either the client OS or even a specific thunderbird/lighting version (as long as it is at least TB 3 beta.)
We use Thunderbird + Lightning to subscribe/publish to the Scalix calendar, which works pretty nicely. When scheduling a meeting Thunderbird can view recipient's free/busy information. However, Thunderbird does not update free/busy information. You can check the free/busy information for a user at the server with the following command:
# sxshowfb --user "John Smith"
If I create a calendar entry in Thunderbird and then update it in SWA free/busy information will be updated.
If I create a calendar entry in Thunderbird and then login to Outlook, free/busy information will be updated (I don't think I even need to update the entry in Outlook.)
Is lightning unable to publish free/busy information to Scalix?
Or is Scalix server itself supposed to generate the free/busy info when it detects that the client has updated the calendar?
Is there a way to have the server regenerate free/busy info (maybe something that I could run as a cron job?)
Thanks