1526808 - Calendar event "organizer" e-mail address is not a hyperlink

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1535018

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[tlhackque]

Attachment: Screenshot of non-clickable "mailto"

When a calendar event containing an "Organizer" property is opened, the organizer is displayed, but the e-mail address is not a hyperlink (not clickable).

Since the recipient may wish to contact the organizer for additional information, it should be.

The ORGANIZER property contains sufficient information to create a hyperlink.
If a CN parameter is present, it's the display name. The value, a 'mailto' link is the value. There is no reason for TB to display the value in <>s...

E.g. Here is an ICS file for an event cancellation. (It normally processed in an e-mail as text/calendar; method="CANCEL", but this is sufficient to illustrate the issue.)

Although this example is a "Cancellation", the same is true for an invitation (method="PUBLISH"). To turn this into a invitation, delete the "STATUS:" line, and change the METHOD from CANCEL to PUBLISH.

Also, while "noreply" is the "organizer" in this test case, ordinarily the organizer is someone other than an automaton!

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:CANCEL
PRODID:-//example.net//vthfilter 1.037
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTACH:http://maps.google.com?q=17+Common+Street%2C+Southborough%2C+MA%2C+0
 1772%2C+us
ATTACH:http://www.southboroughtown.com/node/73443
ATTACH:https://www.southboroughtown.com/sites/southboroughma/files/agendas/
 bos_revised_17.pdf
ATTACH:https://www.southboroughtown.com/sites/southboroughma/files/agendas/
 bos_70.pdf
ATTACH:https://www.southboroughtown.com/sites/southboroughma/files/agendas/
 selectmens_1-10-19_agenda_packet-web.pdf
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Save the original e-mail\, which has the enhanced notice attach
 ed.\nA map is attached to this event.\nOther "Attachments" to this event t
 ake you to the Town website.\nNote: The end time is an estimate.  The actu
 al end time is unknown\n
DTSTAMP:20190210T193804Z
DTSTART:20190110T233000Z
DURATION:PT3H
LOCATION:Southborough Town House\, McAuliffe Hearing Room\n17 Common Street
 \n
ORGANIZER;CN=Southborough Public Meetings:mailto:[e-mail]
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CANCELLED
SUMMARY:Board of Selectmen Agenda - CanCelled - Thursday\, January 10\, 201
 9\n
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:a7f7-7c3d-4f4f-3712-fd59-250c-20ab-983f
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Attached is a screenshot showing this event in TB. The yellow-highlighted <[e-mail]> should be at least mailto:[e-mail], where clicking on the mailto should open an e-mail composition window.

Better yet, the whole line should be <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Southborough Public Meetings</a>, so it would appear

Organizer: Southborough Public Meetings, and clicking would (of course) open a composition window.

Besides being more functional, this presentation would save space on the invitation.

It would also be consistent with how the Attachment lines are presented - they already are active hyperlinks.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 1

[tlhackque]

I meant to point you to the RFC that defines ORGANIZER, but it got lost in editing. Here it is: RFC 5545, Page 111

Thanks again.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

We saw this request before.