[Kolab-devel] Calendar events sent to Outlook client do not work

[Thomas Brüderli]

Mat Cantin wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've come across an odd behavior with Kolab calendar ICS event that are 
> sent to users using Outlook as their email client: events just show up 
> as a downloadable ICS attachment instead of giving them the option to 
> Accept/Deny/Maybe like other events. I've confirmed this on Outlook 
> 2003/2007/2010/2013 and Office 365 webmail. Testing it with Gmail 
> accounts worked without issue.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is that Outlook doesn't like the ICS 
> formating. Is this because Microsoft is again not conforming to 
> standards? I hope there's a workaround, a lot of people use Outlook in 
> my part of the world.
> 
In order to track this down, could you please provide us an ics invitation
created/sent by Outlook (the full email source)? With this we could find
the differences to the ones Kolab sends out and thus try to "fix" it.

Best,
Thomas