412971 - Bad formating of invitations - Weblinks in invitation unusable

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Balazs Lengyel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Lightning 0.7 main release    thunderbird version 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

When I receive an invitation from Microsoft Exchange V6.5 
Lightning formats it. The headers are wonderful, but the text/Description of the invitation is garbled. Newlines are missing weblinks are not marked as such: altogether unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. receive an invitation from Exchange and open it


Actual Results:  
I see nice headings and then garbled text

Expected Results:  
Text should be unformated or properly formated, weblinks should be presented as such.

Comment 1

[Balazs Lengyel]

Attachment: Screenshot of a garbled assignment in Lightning

Comment 2

[Balazs Lengyel]

Attachment: The same attachement as it looks in outlook

Comment 3

[Balazs Lengyel]

Attachment: Source of the email/invitation

Comment 4

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Only release drivers can grant wanted-calendar0.8+. Setting to wanted-calendar0.8?.

Comment 5

[Pete Riley]

There's a similar problem when I receive an invitation from Outlook 2007 (so it's not just a problem with MS Exchange).  I also don't think that this bug is specific to Linux because I use WinXP.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Please get this bug confirmed before requesting wanted-status.

Comment 7

[Sebastian Schwieger]

Confirmed based on the attached email. If I remove the calendar part from the email, the link is displayed correctly. I'm not sure if we want to display the html-version of an multipart/alternative message below the invitation box.

Of course, also http:// addresses in the DESCRIPTION field could be recognized as such and displayed as a link.

Comment 8

[Balazs Lengyel]

The formating of the text using basic whitespace chars like new-line, spaces and tabs should also be preserved. They work fine in a normal email, why are these whitespaces collapsed when formatting as an invitation?

Comment 9

[Jörg Thönnes]

+1

I would like to see plain text formatting preserved.

Comment 10

[Balazs Lengyel]

The 0.8 release now preserves the event formating, at least for me.

html links are presented correctly, however it is still not possible to click-on them to open them.

Comment 11

[Jörg Thönnes]

(In reply to comment #10)
> The 0.8 release now preserves the event formating, at least for me.
> 
> html links are presented correctly, however it is still not possible to
> click-on them to open them.

Yes, the formatting is now OK. But links cannot be clicked on.

Comment 12

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Attachment: [checked in] Improve the situation - v1

This patch improves the situation. Links are linkified in the COMMENT and DESCRIPTION fields. Unfortunately, the text converter stuff from thunderbird is not scriptable, so we need to roll our own or consolidate between the two apps.

Comment 13

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Comment on attachment 329050 [details] [diff] [review]
[checked in] Improve the situation - v1

r=dbo for the improvement

Comment 14

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Improvement checked in, if you are inclined to fix this using a nsIStreamConverter and it becomes possible to use it (synchronously), or there is another way to do the mime conversion asynchronously, go ahead.

Comment 15

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Setting qawanted: We need to verify the improvement, although this bug is not completely fixed.

Comment 16

[Felix Möller]

links are hightlighted and clickable. 

Line breaks are preserved.

Close?

Comment 17

[Balazs Lengyel]

Can be closed, Balazs