GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 234503
Calendar Request from Connector should include plain text
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
This is an enhancement request. When an Outlook user sends a meeting request and that meeting request is opened via an IMAP client (e.g., pine), that meeting request is a multipart MIME format message. One of the parts is a calendar (.ics) file; another one is an HTML message that includes human-readable text of the meeting, something like this: Subject: Meeting Subjet When: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:00 PM-1:30 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana. Where: Meeting Location *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Microsoft Outlook Web Access: https://EARTHQUAKE/exchange/kraig/Inbox/test%203.EML This human-readable text is useful for people who may be using IMAP mail readers; for although they cannot accept the meeting, they can see when the meeting request is. Is it possible to add a feature to connector that puts in a similar human-readable message when connector pushes a meeting to the Exchange server? Currently only the calendar attachment seems to make it.
We wanted to do this, but it turns out to be sort of impossible for now. The problem is that Outlook 2000 in Corporate Workgroup mode will only recognize a multipart meeting request if it's multipart/alternative, and Outlook 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode will only recognize a multipart meeting request if it's multipart/mixed. (Yes, this means that you cannot send a meeting request from O2k in CW mode to O2k in IMO mode, or vice versa.) I'm pretty sure Outlook XP fixes this, so *some day* we may be able to make that work, or we may let it be a configurable option, or something. The bug I'm marking this a dup of is closed WONTFIX, but there's another bug somewhere tracking this issue, so it isn't going to be forgotten. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211573 ***