465515 - Responding to event invitations sends out a new invitation from Google Calendar.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: TB 2.0.0.17 (20080914), GData 0.5.1

When I receive an invitation from someone, and click accept, I will send out a response.  This all works fine, and the event is added to my local calendar.  I then copy my event to the correct Google calendar.  So if it is for work, I copy the event to my remote work Google calendar.  Minutes later, every person on the invite list for the event gets a new invitation, with the subject "Update: [event name]".  Within the email, there is a link to the event that says: "View your event at [web address]".  When you click the link it brings you to the Google version of the event page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an event invitation.
2. Accept the invitation.
3. Copy or move the event from your local calendar to remote Google calendar.
Actual Results:  
Every person on the invitees list received a new email from Google Calendar: [e-mail] with "Update: [event name]" in the subject line and a link to the event on Google's servers.

Expected Results:  
Nobody should receive any new invitations with links to Google Calendar.  They should have no way of knowing that I even use Google Calendar.

Note: This is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400808 which has been closed because it was supposedly fixed.  I have changed the calendar.google.sendEventNotifications to false and this eliminates the problem.

The default for this should be false according to the previous bug, but is set to true.

This bug did not surface until the last update to GData, which leads me to believe that this was set to true again for some reason.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

With the newest version and all options set to their default values, it should not be possible to accept the invitation in the first place. Please reset the values, restart, and check if accepting an invitation shows the Google Calendar in the select calendar dialog.

Comment 2

[Brian]

(In reply to comment #1)
> With the newest version and all options set to their default values, it should
> not be possible to accept the invitation in the first place. Please reset the
> values, restart, and check if accepting an invitation shows the Google Calendar
> in the select calendar dialog.

I never said that I was able to select it in the calendar dialog.  From my original post:
"This all works fine, and the event is added to my local calendar.  I
then copy my event to the correct Google calendar. So if it is for work, I
copy the event to my remote work Google calendar."

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Sorry, i assumed so given the title says you are responding to an event invitation.

In this case, the "right thing" is happening. By copying over the event from your local calendar to the google calendar, you are creating a new event (with a different UID and you as the organizer) on your Google Calendar. Since you are the organizer of this event, so invitations are sent out. Its not possible (due to Server limitations) to specify a different organizer than yourself when creating a new event.

Comment 4

[Brian]

So the functionality has been changed in TB 2.0.0.17 (20080914), GData 0.5.1?  Because it only started doing this in that build.

If that's the case, then I guess I'll just leave my calendar.google.sendEventNotifications as false.

According to your post here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400808#c10 this should have been set to false a long time ago.  I can confirm on my other machines that it is indeed not set to false.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> invalid?

Comment 6

[Brian]

If you set "calendar.google.sendEventNotifications" to false the problem is solved.  I'm not sure if this was ever set as the default.

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> If you set "calendar.google.sendEventNotifications" to false the problem is
> solved.  I'm not sure if this was ever set as the default.

See also https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#Attendees

Comment 8

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

There has been a major rewrite of the Provider for Google Calendar between version 0.32 and 1.0. A vast number of bugs have been fixed during this rewrite, therefore I am closing lots of old bugs that I think might either be fixed or no longer apply to the latest version.

Please read the updated FAQ [1] for details on known issues. If you can reproduce your issue with the latest version of the Provider for Google Calendar and you can't find an existing bug that handles your case, please reopen this issue.

Thank you for your understanding.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider