342443 - when I receive events (but not invitations) from outlook users, we show the raw text/calendar text inline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 505024

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

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when I receive events (but not invitations) from outlook users, we show the raw text/calendar text inline

see attached screen shot.  I'll get a sample email and remove all the private data.

note, I don't have lightning installed.  in this scenario, could we force text/calendar to be an attachment and not inline?  If I had an attachment that I could save to disk as .cal (or whatever?) that would be better, I think.

or, maybe a mime handler to turn text/calendar into html like we do for text/vcard?  but i imagine lightning already does that, so we'd have to defer to lightnings instead of the tbird internal one, if it was installed?  I'm rambling.

jminta / dmose, can you comment?

screen shot coming.

Comment 1

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<sspitzer> joey, does lightning register a text/calendar mime type handler?
<jminta> yeah, it's pretty weak right now, but it's here: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/calendar/lightning/components/lightningTextCalendarConverter.js

Comment 2

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Attachment: screen shot, message source coming next...

Comment 3

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Attachment: email, with personal info removed or changed.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

Doug, is this the bug you were talking to me about today?

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

yup.

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

so, we could do something write the |data| to disk with the right file extension, then attempt to launch it.  Thoughts?

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

When mail.app sends .ics events, they got out as actual attachments in the message instead of message body text like outlook:


--Apple-Mail-1--30979210
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/calendar;
	x-unix-mode=0644;
	name="iCal-20060706-144623.ics"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
	filename=iCal-20060706-144623.ics

BEGIN:VCALENDAR=0D=0AVERSION:2.0=0D=0AX-WR-CALNAME:Test=0D=0A=
PRODID:-//Apple=20Computer\,=20Inc//iCal=202.0//EN=0D=0A=
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN=0D=0AMETHOD:PUBLISH=0D=0AEND:VCALENDAR=0D=0A=

--Apple-Mail-1--30979210--

So at least you can double click it as an attachment and interact with it that way.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

does this still reproduce?