GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 482184
The "Plain Text Mode" option influence Calendaring events
Last modified: 2009-01-14 17:16:35 UTC
The "Plain Text Mode" option influence Calendaring events In Mail Preference -> Plain Text Mode select "Prefer PLAIN". Go to you calendar folder where you receive calendaring events. They are all useless because you can't add it to you calendar. Switching back to "show if HTML present" fix it.
oh. bad. potentially explains some other reports about meeting request rendering problems as well. :-/
Thanks for posting this bug. I couldn't figure out why invitations suddenly stopped working correctly for me this morning, since I hadn't updated evolution in three months, but your post reminded me that I had switched my view preferences to 'Prefer plain text' last Friday in order to read a tabulated report. I don't completely blame evolution though. Outlook (Exchange?) sends all three parts of the message -- text/plain, text/html, and text/calendar -- under the "multipart/alternative" umbrella, which usually means all parts have the same content and the MUA only needs to show one of them. The meeting.ics file does include the same textual content as the other text variants, but I'm not convinced that the calendar part of that format would count as an alternative.
Bumping version to a stable release.
With 2.22.1.1 and 2.22.2 I have to select prefer plain to see the .ics file. Show HTML isn't showing the .ics but does show the HTML message. There is only two MIME types in the message, the text/html for the message and the text/calendar for the .ics
After patch from bug #567687 I see the calendar part as an attachment, under the plain text part. I consider this as correct behaviour. With respect to the comment #4, it has been fixed within bug #532384. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 567687 ***