GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 543415
Calendar invites from google calendar not working
Last modified: 2010-06-09 08:16:49 UTC
OS: openSUSE 11.0 Evolution version: 2.22.1.1 Calendar invites from google calendar come as normal html mail with invite.ics as attachment and I can not accept events to local calendar directly. This used to work in previous version(2.12). Currently I have to download attached ics file and then import using evolution import assistant. Note that I have only 2 calendars in evolution(personal & b'days and anniversaries) as I don't use google calendar because of lack or two way synchronization. Is this causing this behavior?
Is anyone else having this issue?
Is anyone else having same issue? Its very critical. It takes 1 min to accept invite so that it is saved in both google calendar and local evolution calendar.
It is reproducible in Evolution 2.24 as well.
Is anyone having this issue? Am I using something incorrectly?
Reproducible in 2.25.
Reproducible in 2.24.1.1
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 567687 ***
Thanks Milan for the hint. I could get it working by disabling "prefer plain text" plugin.
Recently this bug is popping up. I'm on 2.30.1.2. Recently google calendar invites are showing up as normal mail and don't offer options to accept the invitation. prefer plain text plugin is already disabled.
Do you have a sample mail for that, please?
Created attachment 162531 [details] Sample invite mail This is the original mail which shows up as simple mail in evolution.
Thanks for the update. It seems to me like incorrectly generated email from Google. Their structure is: multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/calendar text/plain text/html application/ics There are two problems: a) those under multipart/alternative should be ordered from the least to the best format, so the text/calendar should be the last one. b) application/ics attachment is nothing known to Evolution, neither to google search itself, thus it cannot be recognized properly. They may use text/calendar for this attachment too, though they probably didn't want to for some reason. You mentioned you've disabled prefer-plain plugin in comment #8. Enable it please, and choose any option in Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->HTML Messages tab->Plain Text Mode section, only not "Show HTML if present" option, as this is using the order of parts from a) to choose the best supported format, which, in this case, is a text/html. I'm sorry, but I do not consider this as an Evolution issue. Try to convince them to use correct multipart/alternative ordering. I'm closing this as NotGnome, though this is still a duplicate of bug #567687.
Surprisingly, enabling prefer plain text plugin fixed the issue. I previously disabled it as for overcoming same issue.
Yup, it's slightly confusing (with the prefer-plain plugin), I agree. It's also because some fixes were done with the plugin itself. Still, if you can, please make Google developers know about the issue.
Reported there. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=69dc5e6f606184d8&hl=en
Thanks. Interestingly, I noticed also other google invites, where the order of multipart/alternative subparts were correct, the text/calendar as the last one. It's kinda confusing.