549433 - For events not created in Lightning, Lightning only sends cancellation notices to new attendees

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[dumdummuoi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 1.0b1

If I create an event in Outlook and send an invitation to myself so that I can add the event to Lightning, and then add more attendees from Lightning, Lightning does not send out invitations to the new attendees. However, if I then remove the new attendees, the cancellation notice gets sent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an event in Microsoft Outlook. Add myself as attendee.
2. Add event to Lightning using the "Accept" button in the email notification.
3. Open event and add an attendee, Attendee A.
4. Click "Save & Close".
Actual Results:  
Lightning does not send out an email notification to Attendee A. Nor does it send updates to Attendee A on any subsequent change to the event time/location/description. However, if Attendee A is removed (also from within Lightning), a cancellation notice is sent out.

Expected Results:  
A notification is sent out when Attendee A is added. Further notifications should be sent out for any subsequent changes to the event.

This issue did not exist in previous versions of Lightning (for Thunderbird 2.x.x).

Comment 1

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

dumdummuoi, is this still an issue using the recently released Lightning 1.0?

Comment 2

[dumdummuoi]

It appears Lightning 1.0 is not compatible with Thunderbird 3.1.15, which is what I'm using right now, but yes, I'm still having this issue with Lightning 1.0b3pre, if that counts.

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

dumdummuoi, the latest version of Thunderbird is currently Thunderbird 8, do you think you could upgrade to see if the Lightning issue still persists?

Comment 4

[dumdummuoi]

Unable to install Thunderbird 8 with Lightning 1.0. After upgrading, Lightning becomes stuck at "Lightning will be updated after you restart Thunderbird". Problem persists through system reboot. 

Tried uninstalling Thunderbird, deleted Thunderbird folders in AppData\Local, AppData\Roaming, and ProgramFiles(x86), restarted, do a clean installation, now Lightning is stuck at "Lightning will be installed after you restart Thunderbird"--on every restart.

Comment 5

[[:MakeMyDay]]

dumdummuoi, is this still an issue with Thunderbird 31.x and Lightning 3.3.x?

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I'd appreciate if you could update this bug with new information, please see previous comments. Closing INCOMPLETE for now, please reopen if this bug still exists.