703529 - Moving event from one calendar to another automatically sends invite

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[Carmen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/14.0.835.202 Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1

Steps to reproduce:

To move an event from one calendar to another: I selected an event from one calendar, did ctrl-x, and in another calendar, I did ctrl-v.



Actual results:

This resent invitations, without any warning or feedback, even though I was not the original organizer of the event.  I was just invited to a company-wide event, and now everybody in the company has received a new invitation to the event, from *me* :)  I only discovered this happened when I started receiving mails from people confirming their presence at the meeting...


Expected results:

Since I was not the organizer of the event, it should have been moved from one calendar to the other without automatically sending invites without my knowledge.  

Even if I were the organizer, I see no reason to resend invites just for moving the event from one calendar to another.   If for some reason, the invites need to be resent (only in the case where I'm the organizer), I should at least see a confirmation dialog first.

Comment 1

[Carmen]

Note that the calendar I pasted into is a Google calendar.  So it's possible that the issue might be with Google calendar and not Lightning...

Comment 2

[Carmen]

Perhaps related to bug 564132: "when importing from .ics, sends out invitations for *all* calendar entries including events in the past and events created by others": 

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564132

It looks like the event in this bug (703529), just like in 564132, was sent out by Google calendar, not Thunderbird. 

I did not find any settings either in Google Calendar, or in Thunderbird, that could prevent this.  One of the comments on 564132 mentions "disabling notifications for the provider globally before importing. See the FAQ for details", but I didn't find this in the FAQ.

I have the following config:
calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations=false
calendar.google.enableAttendees=true
calendar.google.sendEventNotifications=true

Comment 3

[[:MakeMyDay]]

This is still an issue in Lightning 4.0.x / 4.7.x