603320 - Cannot select/change event sender/organizer

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[rob.epler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4

I have several mail accounts within Thunderbird, and when I create an Event using Lightning I cannot select which account the Event "belongs" to. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a 2nd or 3rd mail account in Thunderbird
2. Install Lightning 
3. Create an event
4. Pull all of your hair out when you realize you cannot select a "Sender"
Actual Results:  
Lightning pegs all Calendar info to one account.

Expected Results:  
Should be able to have a calendar for each account?

Anger and Frustration.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Already possible. Switch to calendar or task tab. In the left pane you'll see a list of calendars. Double click a calendar entry or choose Properties... from context menu. Select the email account for the calendar. To create one calendar for each account use menu File > New > Calendar and proceed as above.

Comment 2

[M.Hunstock]

Stefan, it is possible to change these settings, but it simply has no effect. I can confirm the bug in my environment, and it's very annoying.

TB 3.1.5 / Win32
Lightning 1.0b2

additional extensions:
- german dictionary
- enigmail
- display mail user agent

Comment 3

[M.Hunstock]

Ok, I could solve this issue for me:

I am using a CALDAV-based online calendar, and it seems that Thunderbird uses the eMail-address stored in the online calender instead of the identities configured for the Thunderbird mail account. Changing the mail address in the DAVical account on the server to the one I want to use causes Thunderbird to use this address as identity, too.

Comment 4

[Felix Möller]

Similar to bug #678501

Comment 7

[Julián Amer]

In thunderbird 17 with Lightning 1.9 same problem.

Comment 8

[Brian]

It seems this is still an issue and I can duplicate on my setup.Thunderbird 52.0b2 with Lightning 5.4. Hard to believe this is a 6 year old report....

Comment 9

[monperrus]

>  I am using a CALDAV-based online calendar, and it seems that Thunderbird uses the eMail-address stored in the online calender instead of the identities configured for the Thunderbird mail account.

I confirm this bug on TB 54

Comment 10

[Florent Poinsaut]

Donations for a bounty can be done at https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4474929-cannot-select-change-event-sender-organizer

Comment 11

[Filipe Saraiva]

Attachment: edit-calendar.png

Comment 12

[Filipe Saraiva]

Attachment: invite-attendees.png

Comment 13

[Filipe Saraiva]

I am using Thunderbird 68.8.1 and can confirm this bug.

I have some calendars in my Nextcloud instance where my e-mail uses @filipesaraiva.info domain. In my Thunderbird, I configured a calendar using my @ufpa.br e-mail identity, as presented in the figure at Comment #11.

The problem is, when I try to invite people to an event created in that calendar, the event organizer is set to my @filipesaraiva.info e-mail, as presented in Comment #12. Unfortunately, besides Thunderbird doesn't get the correct e-mail configured to that calendar, there is no way to change the organizer e-mail to other e-mail identity configured in Thunderbird.

I would like Thunderbird get the correct e-mail set to a calendar, or at least allow to change the organizer to other configured e-mail identity.

Comment 14

[nderumigny]

I reproduce this bug on a professional account on which the email dress and the login for the IMAP server slightly differs. Therefore, the answers to the invites are note processed correctly, and I cannot be "confirmed" at my own events.

Comment 15

[mnl]

Confirmed for 91.1.0. Makes invitations effectively unusable for me.

Comment 16

[geez]

Thunderbird 115.3.1, this bug is still present. The selection of the email address associated with the calendar has zero influence here.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create two calDAV calendars (A and B), both on the same Nextcloud account.
• Import them into Thunderbird
• Set up two email accounts in Thunderbird, one personal and one work
• Select personal email address for calendar A
• Select work email address for the calendar B
• Confirm, save, double check.
• Create event in calendar A, try to invite people. Associated personal email address is ignored, organiser is ALWAYS the email address of the Nextcloud account.
• Create event in calendar B, try to invite people. Associated work email address is ignored, organiser is ALWAYS the email address of the Nextcloud account.

Tested this using a completly random (nonexistent) email address set up in my Nextcloud account. This address happily showed up as organiser for both calendars. This makes event invitations pretty much unusable for me and LEAKS my private information to work contacts.

Comment 17

[geez]

A workaround for Nextcloud (or similar) users:

• Create a secondary account, e.g., myname_work, with the desired email address.
• Share the relevant calendar from your main account to that account.
• Use that user's calendar instead.

Comment 18

[u605160]

"Anger and Frustration."