445982 - Task invitation via iTIP/iMIP doesn't work

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Andreas Treumann]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
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- create an event and invite someone
- covert this event to a task
- send out the invitation mail
- use the attendees email account and open the invitation email

RESULT:
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- the user could not open the email
- error console error:

Error: [Exception... "'Illegal value' when calling method: [calIEvent::icalString]"  nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/at93795/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/bigaf98i.default2/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/lightningTextCalendarConverter.js :: lmcCTH :: line 212"  data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/at93795/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/bigaf98i.default2/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/lightningTextCalendarConverter.js
Line: 212


EXPECTED RESULT:
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- it should be possible to accept an task invitation via iTIP/iMIP

REPRODUCIBLE:
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- always

Comment 1

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Attachment: [checked in] fixing exceptions, disallowing to send invitations

We currently don't support to properly render tasks in the imip bar. This would require more strings. We should allow sending task invitations until that is fixed, too.

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Comment on attachment 330383 [details] [diff] [review]
[checked in] fixing exceptions, disallowing to send invitations

r=philipp

Comment 3

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Checked in the patch on HEAD and MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH.

This is bug is of course not fixed, but the scenario doesn't run into unhandled exceptions. We currently don't support task invitations (relnote added).

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Daniel, could I get a short text paragraph from you explaining the details of this bug for the release notes, please?

Comment 5

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

I'd suggest the following for the "All Systems" section:
"Lightning cannot send our task invitations and you cannot accept or decline task invitations from within your e-mail inbox (bug 445982).".