GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 543110
Need a way to send email to attendees of meetings
Last modified: 2008-07-16 12:03:53 UTC
After I accept a meeting, it appears in my calendar and when I open it, I see all the other attendees listed there. Often I want to send them all an email, to clarify something on the agenda, or ask if the meeting is still on or if I'm in the right room :-). There's no easy way to do this currently: I have to open an email and type in all the attendees by hand. There should be an option somewhere to send an email to all attendees that would open the a new message with the attendees listed in the To: field. If Evo knows it, it could be something like the required attendees in the To: field and the optional attendees in the Cc: field. Also, it would be nice if the Subject: was filled out with Re: <the meeting Summary>. And, maybe even the description of the meeting could be included as quoted text? I can't decide if that would be more useful than annoying. If this is done please try to follow the mail component reply model, where if there's a selection in the Description only that selected text is quoted: I find that extraordinarily handy. Other information:
One way is to "change something" in the event, after that you'll be prompted whether you want to send changes to the attendees or not. They receive your changed meeting "invite" in a mail if you say so.
(In reply to comment #1) > One way is to "change something" in the event, after that you'll be prompted > whether you want to send changes to the attendees or not. They receive your > changed meeting "invite" in a mail if you say so. a) that imposes a restriction on the user to "change something" (maybe he doesn't want to change anything :-) ) b) the user can change it only if he is the organizer.. what if an attendee wants to contact the other attendees?
Suman's point (b) is the critical one, and the situation I'm in.
Whoops! Suman points out that if you right-click on a meeting in the calendar view, the context menu contains "Reply" and "Reply to All" options that can be used for this (at least for the Exchange calendar). I was fooled because I was looking at the opened calendar item dialog, and it doesn't seem to be possible to do it from there.