441301 - iCalendar attachments from outlook 2003 do not convert into events when accepted

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[Shai Ayal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080501), lightning version: 0.8 (2008033118)

When getting an event invitation from outlook 2003 using vcalander attachments, The attachment is recognized (i.e. displays nicely in the mail window) by lightning, but when "accept" button is pressed, an acceptance email is sent, but the event does not show up in the calendar.
If I save the attachment to file and load the file with lightning, the even appears.

This is a regression -- it worked OK with previous versions of thunderbird/lightning



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get vcalendar event invitation from outlook 2003
2. accept
3. send acceptance email
4. no event shows up in the calendar
5. save the vcalendar attachment to file
6. load file into lightning
7. event appears
Actual Results:  
after pressing accept (step 3) the event should appear in the calendar 

Expected Results:  
No even appears


The following add-ons are installed:
Lightning 0.8
Mail Redirect 0.74
Provider for google Calendar 0.4
TB Change From and FCC on Compose extension 0.3.8

Comment 1

[Shai Ayal]

Attachment: vcalander file that does not work as an attachment

This vcalendar file does not create an event when it is an attachment, but creates an event if loaded using File->Open

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Please check Tools -> Error Console for calendar related error messages and copy+paste them here.

Comment 3

[Shai Ayal]

I see no calendar related messages, or messages relating to the specific email messages containing the vcalendar attachment

Comment 4

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

First, the attached file is not vCalendar but iCalendar format.

If I feed the attached iCalendar file into the iCalendar Validator <http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/> it fails: "Sorry, your calendar could not be parsed.". After removing the line "ATTACH:CID:1b0701c8d529$cbdbe360$" it validates.

Importing the file into Sunbird 0.8 (20080331) and Sunbird 0.9pre (20080830) works just fine.

If you try to manually import (not open) the iCalendar file into your calendar does it works?

Comment 5

[Shai Ayal]

Import does not work. Open works.

Oddly enough (and amybe unrelated) both import & open change the contents of the original file (as attached to this bug report) to:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
END:VCALENDAR

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Shai, do you still see this using newest version?

Comment 7

[Shai Ayal]

I am now using:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100515 Lightning/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.4
Opening the file works as before.
I cannot import it since I cannot find any import option in the menu

Comment 8

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Take a look at the Events & Tasks menu. There should be import and export entries.

Comment 9

[Shai Ayal]

Found It!

Sadly, import (after adding an ics extension) does not work.

Shai

Comment 10

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

As a measure to reduce the number of issues to a more manageable amount I am closing off this bug because it has been filed before 2010 and is still in the "unconfirmed" state and it has not recently been changed.

If this is still an issue, please test with the latest version of Thunderbird and Lightning and comment on the bug, I am happy to reopen it.

Thank you for your understanding!