723202 - Thunderbird should open ICS email attachments in Lightning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 357480

(Calendar :: Lightning Only, defect)

Description

[travis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Build ID: 20120129021758

Steps to reproduce:

Received an email with an ICS (calendar) attachment, I tried to open it with Thunderbird.


Actual results:

It just opened a new message window with the ICS file as an attachment.


Expected results:

It should have opened it in Lightning.

Comment 1

[travis]

My question on superuser: http://superuser.com/questions/382022/how-do-i-get-thunderbird-to-open-an-ics-attachment-directly-in-lightnings-calen

Let me know if any more info is needed. (screenshots, sample ICS file, etc)

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Moving to calendar as this is to do with the lightning add-on, not the core of Thunderbird.

Comment 3

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

A sample email (anonymized is ok) would be nice.

Comment 5

[Rémy Hubscher [:natim]]

Here is a sample email :


From: Capitaine Train <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=89v=C3=A8nement_pour_votre_trajet_Toulouse_=E2=86=92?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?_Paris_=2825_nov._13:38=29?=
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="--==_mimepart_50ac07b0c9ef_46c632a6e020272e";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



----==_mimepart_50ac07b0c9ef_46c632a6e020272e
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:44:00 +0100
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-ID: <[e-mail]>

XXX,

Vous trouverez ci-joint l'=C3=A9v=C3=A8nement .ics =C3=A0 ajouter =C3=A0 =
votre calendrier pour le trajet XXXX =E2=86=92 XXXX.

Ceci n'est pas un billet. Vous devez voyager avec vos titres de transport=
s, et justificatifs de r=C3=A9duction =C3=A9ventuels.

Si vous ne souhaitez plus recevoir les =C3=A9v=C3=A8nements .ics, vous po=
uvez les d=C3=A9sactiver dans vos pr=C3=A9f=C3=A9rences sur le site Capit=
aine Train.

Capitaine Train
https://app.capitainetrain.com/


----==_mimepart_50ac07b0c9ef_46c632a6e020272e
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:44:00 +0100
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/calendar;
 charset=UTF-8;
 method=REQUEST
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-ID: <[e-mail]>

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//com.capitainetrain/Tickets 1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=3DDATE-TIME:20121125T190700Z
STATUS:TENTATIVE
DTSTART;VALUE=3DDATE-TIME:20121125T123800Z
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTSTAMP;VALUE=3DDATE-TIME:20121120T224400Z
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=3DINDIVIDUAL;ROLE=3DREQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=3DNEEDS-ACTI=
ON;RSV
 P=3DTRUE;X-NUM-GUESTS=3D0;CN=3DR=C3=A9my XXX:MAILTO:XXX.XXXXX@X=
XXX.com
UID:[e-mail]
DESCRIPTION:Comment obtenir votre billet=C2=A0?\n------------------------=
----
 --\n\n
SUMMARY:XXXX
ORGANIZER;CN=3DCapitaine Train:MAILTO:[e-mail]
LOCATION:XXXX
SEQUENCE:0
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR


----==_mimepart_50ac07b0c9ef_46c632a6e020272e--

Comment 6

[Mauro Molinari]

Bug #357480 has restricted comments, so I'm writing here. I just want to add that, if the OS integration is too hard, at least some facility from within Thunderbird to open ICS attachments in e-mails would be nice. Right now, there's no available action when right-clicking or double clicking on an ICS file attached to an incoming e-mail and this suggests Thunderbird cannot open it. I had to search on the Internet to find out that I can drag it on the calendar or save it to disk and open with Events & Tasks -> Import. That's silly, especially now that the calendar is an official component of Thunderbird.

Comment 7

[kaless]

Unfortunatelly I mention, that this bug is still open. Does anyone has a workaround to tell thunderbird and lightning to handle .ics-events? On some of our machines in the company inventions to events work, on some other it doesn't.

Comment 8

[patryk.beza]

I also wait for a workaround. It's quite frustrating to save the ICS file and then drag & drop it onto "Today Pane" ie. the Events panel as suggested here: https://superuser.com/a/469978/139893

Comment 9

[benedikt.vormwald]

I second the last comments. I can download an ics file from a web application (indico) for events/meeting agendas. It would be such a simplification if I could add meetings to my calendar by just clicking on the link ics file and opening the file with thunderbird. Now thunderbird just creates a new message with the ics file as attachment. Dowloading & importing the file are too many steps to to integrate it efficiently in the daily work flow. My window manager (i3) has no desktop, therefore using the drag&drop solution suggested here and there also does not help.

Comment 10

[mc]

Interestingly, let's say I create an event in Zoom (or whatever), send event to Google calendar, and invite myself (to get an email with .ics attached) - this email displays the details of the event in message body, it has .ics file attached and the event can be added to calendar.
But when I take the attached .ics file, save it to disk, and attach it to another email - it does not display as an event in Thunderbird (cannot be added to calendar directly, needs to be drag-and-dropped to 'today' pane to work. When I open the same email with the .ics file attached in another email client (aquamail on my android phone) everything works ok.
I can send such a not-working email with .ics attachment to whoever asks.