390954 - Outgoing iMIP invitations: Show all event details in plaintext part of email

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: E-mail based Scheduling (iTIP/iMIP), enhancement)

Description

[Pete Riley]

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For outgoing iMIP invitations, Lightning currently only shows the following event details in the plaintext part of the email:

<email address> has invited you to <event title>

Why not include all of the details?  For example:

Organizer Name (not email address): ...
Event title: ...
Location: ...
Start/End dates and times: ...
Recurs: ...
Description: ...

Consider the situation where some of the recipients of the meeting invitation don't have calendar-aware email programs, or perhaps they would like to forward the email to such people.  Or maybe sometimes they use a computer with a calendar-aware email program on it, but sometimes they're forced to use other computers and/or unsupported webmail while traveling or on vacation.

Currently, the only way to see all of the event details in an unsupported email program is to look at the raw data in the .ics attachment.  While this might be relatively easy for calendar programmers, surely it's too difficult for the average person.

I like the fact that Lightning was designed to send multipart/alternative emails (.ics attachment part + plaintext part) to handle these situations, but I think that the plaintext part should be a lot more useful.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

Couldn't find dupe -> confirming.

Comment 3

[Tim Snelller]

On my Portable Thunderbird/Lighting installation, I have 5 calendars Google Calendars linked, one  for each family member. I cannot currently tell whose calendar an invitation relates to.

Comment 5

[Oskar Eisemuth]

As I have mentioned in Bug 493712 I think the details should be controlled by template and extend the itipRequestBody.

So I would suggest:

- A new default of itipRequestBody in the language file. (With more parameters)
- itipRequestBody changeable by config and/or a simple text file processed by calGetString to allow personal layouts.

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I admit the information sent is not very complete, but we won't block 1.0 on this. It would be nice to redesign the whole outgoing message, setting uiwanted.