404050 - add option to auto-send email invitations to meeting invitees

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 463402

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

Description

[Martin Joseph Brej]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Lightning build 2007102304

Sending meeting requests to invitees should not require an email window to pop and the user to have to manually hit a send button--this should all happen silently in the background.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check box to add invitees
2. Add valid email addresses
3. Hit Save and close button in the event window
Actual Results:  
At that point, a new email composition window pops up to send the event to the email addresses provided--for which, you have to press the Send button manually.

Expected Results:  
This is unnecessary--when I hit the Save and Close button and I have chosen to invite others through email, I would expect that invitation to just get sent to them slinetly in the background without my intervention.

Comment 1

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

Confirming the bug and adjusting summary.
This should be an option (I would propose "Auto-send" checkbox right after "Send attendees invitations via email" and of course ability to set default setting - I assume Bug 312073 would provide this) because user might want to change parts of e-mail or attach a file - Bug 168680 ).

Comment 2

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

There were changes in regards to sending notifications but there's still no option to silently send e-mails.

Comment 3

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

Attachment: Proposed fix v1

Adds pref calendar.itip.autosendNotify (false) which when true makes notification e-mails to be send automatically.
This is one way of implementing this, also compatmode vars could be probably better organized.
Is UI for this wanted ?

Comment 4

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

I am not sure whether adding a pref for this is the right way. It looks like this bug might be a dupe to bug 463402. We should first resolve that bug/discussion and figure out what we want. However, if we decide to choose another pref, we could come back and take your patch; removing from my review queue for now.

Comment 5

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

Whatever about the UI would be decided, hidden pref to auto-send invitations should be good for some corporate users but there is still some time till 1.0

Comment 7

[Tristan Miller]

I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 and am not experiencing the behaviour described by the reporter.  That is, when I create a new event, upon closing the window I get a dialog pop up asking me whether I want to send the invitations.  If I agree, then I don't get any composer window; the invitation message is sent silently and appears in my Sent folder.

Perhaps, then, this bug can be marked as fixed.

Comment 8

[Felix Möller]

I think this is done?

Comment 9

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

No, this bug is still in place, but is indeed a duplicate of bug 463402. I'm going to mark it that way and add a reference to this patch.