Thunderbird does not open .vcs files in the calendar
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(Calendar :: General, defect)
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(Reporter: David, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0
Steps to reproduce:
I clicked on a .vcs file attachment and chose "Open with Thunderbird (default)". Here is the content of the .vcs file:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Paperless Post//paperlesspost.com//EN
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231205T010000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231205T030000Z
SUMMARY:You are Invited to our Open House
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:Museum on Main, 603 Main St\nPleasanton, CA 94566, Pleasanton, CA,
94566, United States
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
The Linux file utility reports its MIME type as text/x-vcalendar. I've attached Thunderbird "troubleshooting information".
I believe this started with the 115 release.
Actual results:
Thunderbird create a message composition window with the .vcs file as an attachment.
Expected results:
Thunderbird should have created a calendar event from the attachment.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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As I understand it, .vcs is an older version of .ics, almost compatible.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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The vcs file provided here is in vCalendar format, identified by the line "VERSION:1.0". The ical.js parser only supports iCalendar/RFC5545, which is identified by "VERSION:2.0" in a file. We resolved similar bug reports in the past as WONTFIX because the vCalendar format had been created in 1996 and the first iCalendar version, its successor, had been developed in 1998.
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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Well, if you won't fix it, you won't fix it. I will mention that, after your response, I tried renaming the .vcs file to have a .ics extension, and Thunderbird accepted it as is ("VERSION:1.0" and all), although I don't know where .vcs and .ics are not compatible, other than the version declaration, so I can't say when just renaming the file would fail.
At least I have the workaround of saving the attachment, renaming it, and opening it with Thunderbird.
Thanks for your time on this.
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