Stupid(?) questions wrt Toltec

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 14:13 schrieb Andreas Gungl:
> Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 12:17 schrieb T. Ribbrock:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:50:12AM +0100, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 16:11 schrieb T. Ribbrock:

> > > > - First of all: We have the IMAP access via the connector working -
> > > > BUT: Is the Toltec connector supposed to deal with incoming meeting
> > > > request like kmail does (i.e. you get this nice "Accept"/"Deny" on
> > > > your screen)? 

Outlook is supposted to deal with it.
Toltec is not. 
Toltec (as other Outlook connectors) cannot speak iCalendar directly.
If you have a problem with iCalender invitation emails, 
test it without Toltec to be extra sure.

> > > > 'cause in our case (Win00/OL2000), it doesn't. All 
> > > > meeting requests I send from kmail are displayed as plain text (i.e.
> > > > the full mail with headers and all) in Outlook. 

Outlook has bugs and iCalendar is not well enough defined.
Thus Outlook will only accept a subset of iCalender invitations.
Kontact (KMail and KOrganizer together) try to be compatible;
make sure to enable all the compatibility switches in
the workgroup settings of KMail.


> > - As mentioned previously, when clicking on any meeting request
> > (generated with KMail), that request is displayed as plain text (or, to
> > be more precise: The source of the mail is shown, header, body and all).
> > - If we drag such a request to the "Calendar" folder, it automatically
> > becomes a meeting, i.e. a dialog window pops up which - I think - is
> > supposed to represent the meeting request, but it's not clear how to
> > accept/deny. Also, responses to meeting requests (e.g. an "accept" of a 
> > KMail user) end up being new appointments instead of being applied tothe
> > existing appointment.

I believe that drag and drop will make an appointment from an email.
This is not what you want. Try to send back and forth some appointments
between Outlook clients (without any plugin) to see how it should work.

> Well, there is a line in the message (quite below the address data) which
> states if the event is known in your calendar or not. Maybe there is a
> problem that the calendar folder on the Kolab server is not your default
> calendar. The invitation handling i ssaid to work only for the default
> calendar in OL. (I haven't verified myself.)
> On our side, opening that message and deleting it marks the attendee in the
> event with the correct state.

To seperate this problem area from the rest, you can do Outlook tests
without Kolab Account, just a local .pst. Now it should display and accept
invitations correctly first, otherwise, there is the bad behaviour already.

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