Thunderbird should open ICS email attachments in Lightning
Categories
(Calendar :: Lightning Only, defect)
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(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: travis.hardiman+bugzilla, Unassigned)
Details
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.
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•9 years ago
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Moving to calendar as this is to do with the lightning add-on, not the core of Thunderbird.
Comment 3•9 years ago
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A sample email (anonymized is ok) would be nice.
Updated•9 years ago
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Comment 5•8 years ago
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Here is a sample email : From: Capitaine Train <calendrier@capitainetrain.com> To: XXX.XXXXX@XXXXXXX.com Message-ID: <50ac07b0f49f_46c632a6e020305d@sa4.prod.capitainetrain.com.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: <50ac07b0e542_46c632a6e0202893@sa4.prod.capitainetrain.com.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: <50ac07b0ee38_46c632a6e0202972@sa4.prod.capitainetrain.com.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:c545ae1156ad9284fdde9018af3024c6080653d2@capitainetrain.com DESCRIPTION:Comment obtenir votre billet=C2=A0?\n------------------------= ---- --\n\n SUMMARY:XXXX ORGANIZER;CN=3DCapitaine Train:MAILTO:calendrier@capitainetrain.com LOCATION:XXXX SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR ----==_mimepart_50ac07b0c9ef_46c632a6e020272e--
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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•2 years ago
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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•1 year ago
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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•5 months ago
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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.
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