667432 - Invitation with MIME type text/x-vcal is not recognized, text/calendar is.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Steven Bakker]

Attachment: Example message that shows the invitation is not picked up

Thunderbird 3.1.10 + Lightning 1.0b2 (b4 not available for x86_64 :-()

I sometimes receive meeting requests in the form of VCALENDAR entries with a MIME-type of "text/x-vcal". Thunderbird/Lightning consistently fails to pick these up (i.e. I cannot accept or decline), and the in-line view is just a plain text dump of the VCALENDAR attachment.

If I modify the message to have a "text/calendar" attachment, TB/L recognizes the invitation just fine.

Other people with e.g. Outlook, Apple Mail or Evolution have no such problems.

Unless the sending application is buggy and the other mail clients are wrong in accepting invitations contained in text/x-vcal attachments, I consider this a bug in Thunderbird/Lightning.

I'll attach copies of a message that doesn't work, and one that works.

Comment 1

[Steven Bakker]

Attachment: Example message that contains an invitation that is picked up correctly.

Note that the only difference with attachment 542133 [details] is that this one has attachments with type "text/calendar" instead of "text/x-vcal".

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

see bug 242411#c12