GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 565057
Evolution Mail and Calendar: vcalendar attachments ar...
Last modified: 2009-01-26 18:05:18 UTC
vcalendar attachments are not being processed. None of the invites i'm receiving from exchange email clients (VCALENDAR v2.0) are being interpreted. Looking at the source of the messages it contains 3 parts: - text message - html message - vcalendar only the text message is displayed, the other parts are not even displayed as attachments. And no option is given to add the invites to my calendar. I have 2 calendars, one local another in a caldav, and both appear to be working fine when i open them. let me know if you need more details. as it is now, it makes the calendar not usable. many thanks!! Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) Gnome Release: 2.24.1 2008-10-24 (Ubuntu) BugBuddy Version: 2.24.1
btw, a couple of other info: - i tried first with the default (?) evolution configuration: all plugins configured - i also tried after disabling all plugins i tried several invitation emails, from different people, none was being recognized as having a vcalendar. -- although i could see it in the source. my email account is an IMAP, and i'm downloading the basic headers+mailing list headers. cheers
Created attachment 124980 [details] Source of a sample email "anonymized" i "anonymized" onde of the invites emails (actually this one was an update invite) and copied here. none is working, but just as a sample.
I also opened the same emails on Claws Mail (another gnome email client), and with the vcalendar plugin it correctly parses the vcalendar.
Interesting - when importing the attachment here I can choose whether to import as mailbox or as ics file. Both work correctly after importing.
Funny, here it doesn't even recognize attachments on the email ... maybe that's why it's not processing the vcalendar. I'm using ubuntu 8.10 pretty vanilla. But ... i have been using evolution for a long time (since ubuntu 6.xx). Maybe i should just erase all my configuration and start from scratch ?
I see the same problem on my laptop, also a vanilla ubuntu 8.10 (evolution 2.24.2). When opening a message with a VCALENDAR (and a text and an HTML message parts) only the message is displayed, and it doesn't indicate the presence of any attachments, or recognizes and calendar events ... let me know if/how i can help track down this bug. cheers!
hm, again i erased my .evolution directory and let evolution recreate everything (i have 100K's of emails on my IMAP account), but again it doesn't see (or show me) that the emails with VCALENDAR are multipart, with a VCALENDAR. if i wanted to debug it myself, where should i look into ? (i already checked out the code for 2.24.2) many thanks! - jan
sorry, the file didn't fit the attachment, so i put it here: http://abstract.homelinux.org:9240/janpf/massif.out.22136 (pls, if someone with more permissions could copy it over and add as an attachment, it would be great, as that is a temporary space, it has 1.4mb of text file) to pretty print the massif output use: $ ms_print massif.out.22136 | less look at the last snapshot (end of this output) to have an idea which functions allocated most of the space. thx - jan
sorry, pls ignore the previous comment, it was on the wrong bug report (it was supposed to go to bug 564727)
I just found out that in one of the laptops i recently installed i wasn't seeing this issue. When checking for the difference, i noticed that i didn't have the package "evolution-plugins" or "evolution-exchange" in it -- although i'm not using exchange server. After i removed those packages, the attachments were being seen again, so i suppose some plugin was causing the issue.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 567687 ***