[Kolab-devel] Re: Problem handling Outlook invitations in Kontact

[Andreas Gungl]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 23:50 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:42, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while I've had no problems so far to handle invitations from OL in
> > Kontact, today I 've got three messages which can't be shown as
> > invitations by Kontact.
> >
> > After analysing the messages, the problem seems to be the message
> > structure:
> >
> > Working:
> > * multipart alternative
> > - text part
> > - html part
> > - ical attachment
> >
> > Failing:
> > * multipart mixed
> > - multipart alternative
> > -- text part
> > -- html part
> > - ical attachment
> >
> > Well, if anybody can tell me at first how to reconfigure OL to not
> > use the mixed parts, this were a suitable workaround for the moment.
> > But to really solve the problem KMail should be able to detect the
> > ical attachment and show the nice invitation section in the message
> > view.
>
> According to its structure the failing message is a normal email message
> with an ical attachment. Without actually seeing the message it's
> impossible to say whether we can treat it as invitation without causing
> problems with normal messages with ical attachments which are not
> broken invitation messages.

You're right. It was not really an invitation but an attached appointment 
(event). So the ones to blame were on the keyboard in front of the screen 
(incl. me). :-(

> It would be good if you could create a failing example invitation
> without sensitive data.

I've attached an example nevertheless.

Andreas
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