[Kolab-devel] [issue2621] Forward the appointment as non-invitation iCalender (ics) file

[Bernhard Reiter]

New submission from Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>:

There is the use case if you want to inform           
somebody else about an appointment, without           
requesting a response.           
Thus is would be more like a forward of an exported           
iCalender or ics file.           
Differently phrased a shortcut of export appointment           
and then attach the exported file.           
           
With kontact enterprise35 20080404.793539,           
we can do "send as iCalender" which is type METHOD=REQUEST.           
and a request is like an invitation even with RVSP=false.           
           
If we would use METHOD=PUBLISH, we could not include            
the attendees as rfc2446.txt section 3.2.1 PUBLISH reads:         
 The "Organizer" MUST be present in a      
   published iCalendar component. "Attendees" MUST NOT be present.      
      
Outlook2003 (tested with Outlook2003SP3 German on Windows XP)     
can do "forward as iCalender" and will use PUBLISH in an injvalid .ics file ,     
because it has no Organizer sometimes (hypothesis: When no other attendee is in    
there) and will use REQUEST sometimes (hypothesis: When other attendees are in    
there).    
   
If there is no METHOD line in an email, it will be treated  
as attachment. Outlook had a problem opening it (the error message was  
unhelpful). Kontact can also not open it.  
  
So there is no apparent solution. We could enable Kontact  
to deal with non-method iCalender file, but of course we cannot fix Outlook.

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assignedto: till
messages: 14433
nosy: bernhard, till, vkrause
priority: wish
status: unread
title: Forward the appointment as non-invitation iCalender (ics) file
topic: enterprise35, kde client
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