242937 - vcalendar /ical attachment displayed as text in mail in stead of attachment

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 505024

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Filip]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.6 (20040502)

A meeting request coming in from any other email client should arrive as .ics 
attachement. In stead thunderbird displays the file as text in the preview 
pane. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. send a meeting request from outlook to your thunderbird email address
2. open email (meeting request)
3.

Actual Results:  
vcalendar code is displayed

Expected Results:  
show an attacheded .ics file

Comment 1

[Filip]

Attachment: shows the vcalendar being displayed in the email - not as an attached .ics file

Comment 2

[Gary Brasher]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=147900)
> shows the vcalendar being displayed in the email - not as an attached .ics file
> 
The same results occur in Thunderbird 0.7.2 when an email is received which
contains mime content-type text/calendar.

Comment 3

[R.C.H.]

I always run into this problem.

Here is the message which I get and it is displayed as text.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[e-mail]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[e-mail]
DTSTART:20041221T130000Z
DTEND:20041221T133000Z
LOCATION:asdffassdf
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000D076BBC9BDE6C4010000000000000000100
 0000098B754D0E19EED4A88CA58E14947F7CB
DTSTAMP:20041220T230028Z
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday\, December 21\, 2004 8:00 AM-8:30 AM (GMT-05:00)
  Eastern Time (US & Canada).\nWhere:
  asdffassdf\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n
SUMMARY:test
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASS:PUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR


Why is this bug labeled unconfirmed? 

I suspect this might have something to do with ancient profiles since I've been
running Thunderbird since version 0.4 and has not changed my profile (nor do I
want to).

Comment 4

[R.C.H.]

Attachment: Thunderbird window illustrating the aforementioned problem.

Attachment enclosed per above message.

Comment 5

[alex ball]

There are three behaviors that I have seen associated with this bug:

1. If the message is plain-text, and there is no message text
   other than the calendar file, the calendar info is displayed
   inline.

 --OR--

2. If the message is plain-text, and there IS message text other
   than the calendar file... "" and the calendar info is not
   displayed.

 --OR--

3. If the message is HTML, the attachment is not displayed at
   all. Viewing the source confirms that the attachment is
   present, but Thunderbird is treating is as garbage after the
   the </html> tag in the message body.

Behaviors #2 and #3 may occur because Exchange does not insert a blank line
before the MIME separator in the message.

This is consistently reproducible in Thunderbird 1.0 and 1.0.2 on Windows XP SP2
and MacOS X (10.3.8).

Comment 6

[db]

I can confirm this problem.

These invitations should be easy to recognize, at least for me this header is
always present:

Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;	charset="UTF-8"

Wouldn't it be possible to create an extentions that handled this while we wait
for a permanent solution?

Comment 7

[Michael J. Radwin]

(In reply to comment #6)

> Wouldn't it be possible to create an extentions that handled this while we wait
> for a permanent solution?

For what it's worth, installing the Lightning 0.3 extension seems to solve this problem. On messages with incorrectly formed MIME attachments, Lightning causes Thunderbird to see the .ics attachment as an actual attachment. I'm not actually using Lightning to manage my calendar, but just having the extension installed changes the behavior of how Thunderbird parses the message, so I can simply double-click on the meeting.ics attachment to feed it to an external helper program (in my case Apple iCal).

Comment 9

[justin]

Yes! Thanks for the tip. Installing the Lightning plugin allows me to actually see the attachment files finally. I'm surprised this is still an issue!

Comment 10

[pdw]

This bug remains an issue when not using Lightning.

I use iCal, and when calendar invites are present as an attachment in a multi-part message they are presented as an attachment, I can double click to open in iCal and everything works fine.

If the invite is the body of the message itself, with a content-type of text/calendar then it is presented inline, with no option to open it another application.

Comment 12

[markham breitbach]

Shouldn't bug 505024 be marked as a duplicate of this one?

Regardless, does that mean that 12 years later someone might actually take a crack at this?

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to markham breitbach from comment #12)
> Shouldn't bug 505024 be marked as a duplicate of this one?

even though bug 505024 is newer, it has much more context. So we don't dup 505024 back to this :)