Closed
Bug 59630
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
Support for display of Outlook meeting requests, appointments, etc
Categories
(Calendar :: Lightning Only, enhancement)
Calendar
Lightning Only
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
Lightning 0.3
People
(Reporter: talvola, Unassigned)
References
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Bug 32629 talks about implementing a full calendar system within Netscape Mail. One thing which would be a potential first step, or a side project, would be to recognize the special e-mails that Outlook uses for certain items. All of these seem to just include special text in the body of the e-mail which the Outlook client must use. Appointment and meeting requests are the ones that would be most useful. There are some other things, like Tasks, which might also be useful. Appointment or Meeting Request (they seem to be identical): From: Erik Talvola <etalvola@sapient.com> To: "'talvola@sdf.lonestar.org'" <talvola@sdf.lonestar.org> Subject: Test appointment Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:54:07 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" When: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:00 PM-11:30 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana. Where: San Francisco *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In Netscape mail - you can read the When and Where just fine, but in Outlook clients, you are presented with buttons allowing 'Accept', 'Tentative', and 'Decline', which send pre-formatted replies. If you can't send those messages, then you can't effectively use Netscape mail in an Outlook environment. Not sure if all the details of the formats are documented or not. Of course, this is just Outlook. Lotus Notes has its own format for sending out meeting requests, and I'm sure there are many other standards as well.
Comment 1•24 years ago
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Reporter is this still a problem in the latest nightlies?
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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Yep - nothing has changed recently here. Build ID: 2000121804
Blocks bug 122651 and bug 122652.
Blocks: cal-integration, cal-invitations
Comment 5•22 years ago
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would anyone be upset if I took over this bug in the calendar app? My goal is to eventually getting to the point where calendar and mailnews can do this together. Since this bug hasn't been commented on (except to block the calendar mailnews tracking bug) I assume this won't be a big deal.
Comment 6•22 years ago
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reassigning to danp@oeone.com. I'm reassigning to Dan.
Assignee: putterman → danp
Updated•22 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
I am afraid this bug, or the solution to it is invalid. Outlook does *not* parse the text as an calendar entry, the text is only the text/plain part of a multipart-mime message where the calendar data is stored in a MAPI storage part. So setting the text has no effect on Outlook. Part of the actual message: This is a multi-part message in MIME format (send by a Dutch Outlook 2002 client): ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C23427.CB2CB970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tijd: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:00 AM-9:30 AM (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C23427.CB2CB970 Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="winmail.dat" eJ8+IhcUAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAHgAAAElQTS5NaWNy b3NvZnQgU2NoZWR1bGUuTXRnUmVxAJUKAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEGAAMADgAAANIHCAAKAAkAAAAA AAYA+gABBwADAA4AAADSBwgACgAJAB4AAAAGABgBAQgABQAEAAAA0ncZ4kQCAQkABAACAAAAAQAB AAEGgAMADgAAANIHBwAZABYACAAAAAQAGwEBA5AGANwMAABcAAAACwACAAEAAAALACMAAAAAAAMA JgAAAAAACwApAAAAAAADAC4AAAAAAAMANgAAAAAAHgBNAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAEAAYAAAGA6LO0DC AUAAYQAATPC7P0DCAR4AcAABAAAACAAAAHRlc3QxMjMAAgFxAAEAAAAWAAAAAcI0Fwd7FLNF9841
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Comment 8•22 years ago
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hmm - I know about the MS-TNEF attachments, but I never actually see them in Mozilla Mail on Calendar entries. This could very well be the same issue as Bug 59627 - where simply using IMAP to get information from an Exchange Server is not sufficient - and to really get all of the information visible with the Outlook client, one needs to use MAPI, or something like the Ximian Connector (http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/). If it is matter of extracting info from a TNEF file, there is a GPL application called TNEF at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/ which can handle it.
Tried that, but sadly extracting the attachment with http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/ does not work. So that won't solve the problem.
Comment 10•22 years ago
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I never receive calendar data from outlook clients as ms-tnef attachment. I receive instead ics file in UTF-8, so it looks a lot easier to integrate to the calendar, in fact it sound as if we only require for the type text/calendar to trigger the calendar. But maybe the current calendar doesn't support all the fields used. Here is what I get exatly (a few of the HTML as been trimmed): This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19E77.DC6F3BFE Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 6.0.4712.0"> <TITLE>Mis(e) =E0 jour: Point teleIR</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> <P><SPAN LANG=3D"fr-lu"><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Quand=A0: jeudi 17 = janvier 2002 15:30-16:30 (GMT+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, = Paris.</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN LANG=3D"fr-lu"><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Emplacement=A0: = Issy</FONT></SPAN> </P> <P><SPAN LANG=3D"fr-lu"><FONT SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial">*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</FONT></SPAN> </P> <P><SPAN LANG=3D"fr-lu"><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial">Peut on d=E9caller le point propos=E9 par J=E9rome =E0 = jeudi apr=E8s midi apr=E8s 15H30</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> = </FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN LANG=3D"fr-lu"><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial">En effet je suis =E0 l'ext=E9rieur demain = matin</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19E77.DC6F3BFE content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; name="meeting.ics" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Sarajevo/Warsaw/Zagreb X-MICROSOFT-CDO-TZID:2 BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20020116T102646Z DTSTART;TZID="Sarajevo/Warsaw/Zagreb":20020117T153000 SUMMARY:Mis(e) à jour: Point IR UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000B0F8BF3EE39DC101000000000000000 010000000CD83D38905AC2B4290EC0F81EF827F84 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ea(E-mail)":MAILTO:ea@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jean-Marc Desperrier (E-mail)":MAILTO:jean-marc.desperrier@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ph (E-mail)":MAILTO:ph@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Br (E-mail)":MAILTO:br@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;X-REPLYTIME=20020116T08 0800Z;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Fr":MAILTO:fr@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="La (E-mail)":MAILTO:la@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Do (E-mail)":MAILTO:do@test.invalid ATTENDEE;ROLE=OPT-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;X-REPLYTIME=20020115T18 2100Z;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Do":MAILTO:do@test.invalid ORGANIZER;CN="Je":MAILTO:je@test.invalid LOCATION:Issy DTEND;TZID="Sarajevo/Warsaw/Zagreb":20020117T163000 DESCRIPTION:Peut on décaller le point proposé par Jérome à jeudi après midi après 15H30 \NEn effet je suis à l'extérieur demain matin \NMerci \N\N SEQUENCE:0 PRIORITY:5 CLASS: CREATED:20020116T102338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20020116T102339Z STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:REMINDER TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT00H15M00S END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19E77.DC6F3BFE--
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Comment 11•22 years ago
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Outlook 2000 (at least) supports sending calendar items either in 'native' Exchange server format, or as iCalendar messages (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt). However, that is not the default, and for users in many corporations, they will likely never see iCalendar formatted messages.
Comment 12•22 years ago
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I believe there is some Linux app (Evolution or some other) that has done just what we need, namely to send and recieve "outlook items" by just using plain imap and not doing their special outlook to exchange protocol. Perhaps it was worth a look, if we are lucky it is open source
Comment 13•22 years ago
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*** Bug 151240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14•22 years ago
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Changing this to a calendar bug, because its calendar that's going to have to overlay email.
Component: Mail Window Front End → Calendar Front End
Product: MailNews → Calendar
Target Milestone: --- → 1.1
Version: other → unspecified
Comment 15•22 years ago
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*** Bug 172611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16•22 years ago
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Don't we want this to work on all platforms and OSes? Platform/OS -> All/All!
OS: other → All
Hardware: PC → All
Comment 17•22 years ago
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Some context / data which may or may not help - I have poked around with this a lot. 1. TNEF is a propetary, binary MS attachment packing format, that dates from the dawn of time. It can handle multiple parts, much like MIME. 2. When Outlook sends stuff in TNEF, it packs all the parts up as one TNEF bundle, inclduing the HTML version of the email text, and then sends a two section MIME mutlipart with text/plain (the text version) and application/ms_tnef (the TNEF bundle). The filename of the TNEF bundle within the MIME layer is always "winmail.dat". 3. When Outlook sends mail via an Exchange Server (or at least, when using the proprietary MAPI connector), the server repacks TNEF into MIME for the external network. That doesn't help if you are using Outlook standalone on a small network with simple SMTP and e.g. sendmail as the server, or using it standalone from a home office with an ISP's mail server. 4. When Outlook sends normal attachments, the default packing is multipart with base64 for the binaries, unless you select RTF as the formatted text format (instead of HTML) - this triggers an unrelated feature which changes attachment packing to the TNEF bundle described above. There is no explicit UI for controlling TNEF vs MIME. 5. When Outlook sends calendaring requests, by default they are always sent as TNEF, unless you turn on an option which sends them in iCAL format. The problem is, most people neither know nor care that this exists; Outlook users are accustomed to sending these meeting request emails and having them simply work. 6. Even if iCAL is selected, Outlook (at least, the Office 2k version) will still use TNEF for meeting requests if there are any other attachments, e.g. a binary file like and MS-Word document. It seems unwilling or unable to pack an iCAL with other attachments in MIME, though AFAICT there are no technical or standards obstacles to doing so. -- IMHO, to truly be useful, here are the features that a Mozilla integrated calendaring support must have. I'm not trying to sound demanding, this is just an objective opinion and no more valid than anyone else's. I will say the calendar is the "killer feature" that enabled MS to migrate corporate clients from Lotus Notes + Domino to Outlook + Exchange, and it is the killer feature, which, when in Mozilla, will enable me to displace Outlook entriely from the non-techie side of my organization and all the accursed viruses with it. I will *love* whoever provides this :-) As previous comments point out, taking the moral high ground (iCAL is standard, MS should use it) is of no value to users of Mozilla - the unwashed public uses Outlook in its default install, and spews forth TNEF onto the internet. I get TNEF meeting thingies every day, from both within and outwith the company. Just like any word processor which doesn't handle .doc is a waste of time, if you want interoperability with Outlook you have to bring Mohammed to the mountain, and that means working with whatever Outlook produces (proprietary or otherwise) in its default install configuration. 1. Mozilla needs to understand TNEF as well as MIME. Ideally, this feature should be modular, and completely independent of the calendaring; all the usual attachment handling should work (Save As, Inline Display, etc.) Open source tools exist which unpack TNEF suitable for reference source, e.g. http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnef/?topic_id=28 2. Having unpacked the MIME, Mozilla needs to understand the calendaring attachment. This is no doubt binary :-) Other tools exist which do this too, e.g. Ximian Evolution. 3. Add a feature which detects if a TNEF bundle contains a meeting request, and like Outlook, offers a different UI presentation with the action buttons (Reject, Confirm, etc.) embedded in a toolbar above the message pane. This would eventually be integrated with a future Mozilla PIM tool, and e.g. add it to the PIM's calendar in the usual way. Pressing the buttons should generate appropriate replies in (configurable) either iCAL or TNEF, or in the same format as was received (Outlook speaks very fluent iCAL and I've had an Outlook user on it for 6 months, interoperating with Outlook-TNEF users without even realising it).
Comment 18•21 years ago
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from my experience, MS Outlook can pack attached files in a winmail.dat file. This happens only when ht eoptions are set to send message in RTF format (and not SimpleText ou HTML). A workaround is to tell the sender to switch to "Simple text". The sender, when writing a mail, will still be able to choose the HTML format, and thus format the message with plenty of colors. If the sender does so, the attached files will be in MIME, and can be read by any RFC-compliant mail application that receives the mail.
Comment 19•21 years ago
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I stumbled across Rainlendar http://vapaa.dc.inet.fi/~rainy/ which is a small desktop calendar utility that nicely displays outlook appointments, meeting, etc.... Have a look at the utility, also available with source code, under GNU GPL. Perhaps we can reuse come of that code? (posted same comment in bug 134763 by the way).
Comment 20•21 years ago
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This is one of two bugs (Bug 134763) that I've found for Exchange calendar support [should one dupe?]. Comment 17 and Comment 19 seem to outline the necessary information for interaction formats. In my personal experience in trying to get corporate users to switch to Mozilla / Thunderbird, the greatest boundary has been integration with Exchange Calendaring. I'm confused over the lack of resources directed toward this issue. If this issue were addressed, it seems like it would greatly increase the usage of Moz as calendaring / invitees are so central in many exchange installs. What can be done to increase the importance of this issue and resolution time?
Comment 21•20 years ago
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*** Bug 237904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22•20 years ago
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Hi! I see this bug has not had any activity in a while. Let me describe my setup and ask whether I should file my inquiry under this bug or open a new one. I am using Thunderbird 0.5 with Calendar 2004022612-cal as reported in Help -> About Calendar. Thunderbird is connecting to an Exchange 2000 server (not my choice) via IMAP. When I receive meeting requests and appointments from Outlook users, the messages look very much like those described below in "Additional Comment #10 From Jean-Marc Desperrier 2002-08-28 12:57 PST". There is an initial text/html part describing for the user the "where" and "when" attributes ("quand" and "emplacement" in Jean-Marc's example). Next is a text/calendar part. I never see this second part represented as an attachment. There is in fact no indication of its presence except by viewing the source of the message: ------_=_NextPart_001_01C415B4.178BE820 content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; name="meeting.ics" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I suspect that there is either a violation of the RFCs on Exchange's part or a MIME parser bug on Mozilla's part (being equitable here) as I can make the text/calendar part show up by minimal tweaking: ------_=_NextPart_001_01C415B4.178BE820 Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; name="meeting.ics" content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here I have rearranged the MIME headers for the text/calendar part so that the Content-Type header comes first. I don't know whether the MIME RFCs dictate this ordering, but making this change causes Thunderbird to display the attachment.
Comment 23•20 years ago
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Source of any e-mail that does not work. This is not a vcalendar attachement, but is generated by Outlook and received by Mozilla. Note image in attachment is copyrighted, and is present as the e-mail was sent to me. Addresses have been changed.
Comment 24•20 years ago
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It appears that this does not just affect vcalendar type attachments. Today I recevied an e-mail ( see first attachment - 'e-mail.txt' ) and it suffers from the same problem, ie. it does not appear in the view frame or as an attachement. For those of you who don't want to download the whole attachement (though it might prove more useful than the MIME section byitself) the start of the MIME sections looks like: ------_=_NextPart_001_01C431FF.E75E9C0C Content-Type: image/gif; name="dilbert2073207040504.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: dilbert2073207040504.gif Content-Location: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2073207040504.gif R0lGODlhWALNALMAAMvLy/Ly8qampvr6+oODgywsLLm5uZaWlnZ2dmZmZurq6ldXV93d3UVFRQAA AP///yH5BAAAAAAALAAAAABYAs0AAAT/8MlJq7046827/2AojmRpnmiqrmzrvnAsz3Rt33iu73zv /8DUQEAsGo/IpHLJbDqf0Kh0Sq0OOIaqdsvter/gJYMDCJvP6LSaaaAEHPC4fE6v2+/4vH7P7/v/
Comment 25•20 years ago
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From http://www.novell.com/products/connector Effective immediately, Evolution Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 (formerly Ximian Connector) is available under a free, open source license. Users no longer need a license file to run the software, and source code has been made public at http://ftp.ximian.com under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Comment 26•20 years ago
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*** Bug 252576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27•20 years ago
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Playing around with the text of an Outlook message shows that the problem is due to Outlook using the 'multipart/alternative' mime type to specify the e-mail content. An explanation of the mime-type is available here: http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1521/18.htm Specifically: "The multipart/alternative type is syntactically identical to multipart/mixed, but the semantics are different. In particular, each of the parts is an "alternative" version of the same information." Changing the mime-type to 'multipart/mixed' gets the attachment displayed, but only because the semantics are changed. What would be needed is for Mozilla to provide access to the 'alternative' presentations of the text, maybe via a menu or a list. If you think about it, the mime-type is actually correct (the practical side is a separate argument). Mail clients that don't know how to deal with 'text/calendar' will default to the 'text/html' or 'text/palin' description of the appointment. Clients, such as Outlook, that understand the mime-type will give precedence to it and display it with the appropriate viewer. If you do a search in Bugzilla for 'multipart/alternative' you will see that there are already a number of entries related to the MIME type.
Comment 28•20 years ago
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See bug 130119 for a request to fix the 'multipart/alternative' issue, which affects this bug.
Comment 29•20 years ago
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*** Bug 258393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30•20 years ago
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*** Bug 227923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31•20 years ago
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mostafah should have been CC'ed when this became a calendar bug
Comment 32•20 years ago
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I am using Thunderbird 0.9 and daily build of Calendar extension. Here is how I get meeting info from my co-workers using Outlook 2003 with iCal enabled by default: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal X-UIDL: +bD"!<pQ!!mRN!!YCS"! BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT So, it's not multipart/alternative... Did Outlook change its format?
Comment 33•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #32) > I am using Thunderbird 0.9 and daily build of Calendar extension. > > So, it's not multipart/alternative... Did Outlook change its format? My colleagues seem to be using a later version of Outlook. I just wanted to confirm this version is not sending calendar events as multipart, as well. Here's the snippet... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Thread-Index: AcUHfjg19mBrvYwdSZCtlgnMkUPL2A== BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT
Comment 34•19 years ago
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Comment 35•19 years ago
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The dependency on bug 130119 should be dropped, because there's no requirement to manually present the text/calendar part of a multipart/alternative to the user (which is what 130119 asks for). What needs to happen is just that Thunderbird parses vCalendar data in text/calendar MIME parts automatically, and presents the appropriate UI elements to the user (Accept, Tentative, etc.). Note that Outlook offers a particularly useful feature where all invitations, on being parsed in the Inbox, are automatically added to the calendar as Tentative until the user chooses to accept or decline. That way, if you get behind on your mail, but check your calendar, you won't miss meetings that you haven't accepted yet. Being able to parse winmail.dat can be split off as a later enhancement, as Outlook 2003 in IMAP mode and when connecting to Exchange 5.5 or 2003 now sounds text/calendar MIME types rather than winmail.dat (see new attachment). Is anyone working on automated parsing of text/calendar. The Mozilla Calendar extension seems mature enough to be ready for the integration.
Comment 36•19 years ago
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This screenshot shows the UI for an Outlook meeting invitation. (It's shown here in the preview pane, but it looks the same in it's own message window). The key buttons are Accept, Tentative, Decline, Propose New Time, and Calendar.... The last opens the Calendar in a new window, with this event highlighted (the event is marked tentative until the user manually selects an option). This UI works extremely well and should be replicated in Thunderbird.
Updated•19 years ago
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Component: Sunbird and Calendar-Extension Front End → Base
Priority: P3 → --
QA Contact: esther → base
Target Milestone: 1.1 → Future
Comment 37•19 years ago
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It would also be nice if it would set the appropriate meeting status to cancelled when you import a meeting cancelation request for a meeting you already have scheduled. This may be part of duplicate filtering, but it relates to this bug. I can attach a sample of a meeting cancellation if necessary. I also have a workaround for the multipart/alternative not displaying issue. I use the following lines in my .procmailrc to change them to multipart/mixed: :0 wf *^content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage | perl -p -e's@(Content-Type: multipart/)alternative;@$1mixed;@'
Comment 38•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #35) > Note that Outlook offers a particularly useful feature where all invitations, on > being parsed in the Inbox, are automatically added to the calendar as Tentative > until the user chooses to accept or decline. That way, if you get behind on > your mail, but check your calendar, you won't miss meetings that you haven't > accepted yet. Where I work I get loads of event anouncements and the fact that they all show on my calendar is very annoying, since it keeps me from noting the important stuff (perhaps I'm just an unskilled outlook user, but I don't know how to get rid of all these events in my view). Anyway, just wanted to say that if this suggestion is implemented, then I think there should also be a way to view the calander with the tentative-appointments-from-emails cleared.
Updated•18 years ago
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Assignee: danp → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Comment 39•18 years ago
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============================================================================ When: Occurs every Wednesday effective 15-Feb-06 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (GMT+05:30) Calcutta, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi. Where: 4th floor room *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* On behalf of XYZ: we will start discuss AIs ========================================================== The outlook comes with this message. I am a novice in mozilla (cant add myself!!), but as this is a common format i think it would be easier to extract date, time and place and associate it with the lightning calender ical format. This as discussed earlier by others would be useful feature so as to completly move out of outlook.
Comment 40•18 years ago
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Dupe of 334468 now since that landed?
Component: Internal Components → Lightning Only
QA Contact: base → lightning
Target Milestone: Future → Lightning 0.3
Updated•18 years ago
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Target Milestone: Lightning 0.3 → Lightning 0.5
Comment 41•18 years ago
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As seen in this screenshot, this bug is (finally) FIXED by ctalbert's iMIP stuff.
Comment 42•18 years ago
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FIXED by checkin for bug 343049
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Depends on: 343049
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: Lightning 0.5 → Lightning 0.3
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