GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 221385
v1.0.2 (ONLY) Meeting Requests sent in invalid format that Outlook can't read
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: Evolution v1.0.2 fails to send meeting requests with MIME headers understandable by Outlook 2002 (XP), rendering Evo 1.0.2 unusable in a corporate environment with this requirement. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Schedule a meeting 2. Send it to a user using Outlook 2002 (XP) 3. Go there and verify that Outlook does not recognize the meeting request for what it is. Actual Results: Failure Expected Results: Success How often does this happen? Consistently Additional Information: Since Outlook 2002 has no problem with meeting requests from Evo 1.0, I've done some comparisons between the two, and Evo 1.0 has one extra line in the MIME headers that Evo 1.0.2 does not: Content-Disposition: inline; filename=calendar.ics This is the only difference I can discern between the meeting requests from the two versions Evolution. Outlook sees 1.0's "calendar.ics" as an attachment, and acts accordingly when it's launched. Since Evo 1.0.2 doesn't have this line, Outlook doesn't know what to do with it, and it more or less shows up as a blank email. I have no idea if this MIME line was dropped on purpose or accidentally, but it breaks calendar compatibility with Outlook.
I'm pretty sure this is 14705, which is fixed in 1.0.3. As you can see for 1.0.2 you can use the environment variable. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214705 ***