Stupid(?) questions wrt Toltec

[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)? '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. None of the docs clearly states
> >   whether the connector is supposed to deal with this or not, so I'm really
> >   not sure.
> >   On the Outlook side, mails are downloaded via POP3 (doc3 states
> >   something to the extent that Outlook can't deal with the mails unless
> >   downloaded via POP3 - did I misunderstand something?).
> 
> Works fine here with POP3/SMTP configured via Internet-Mail and Toltec 
> Connector used to access the IMAP folders.
> But looking at your explanation I can't see a reason why it doesn't work for 
> you.

Thanks - at least I know for certain now that it *should* work. I'll add
more detail - maybe you can compare it to your setup and see something
odd? 

- We added a POP3 account to OL00 with "Internet-Mail", indeed.
- The Toltec connector is installed.
- We can see and access all IMAP folders of the account, with the exception
  of the actual "INBOX" (the one on the server, not the one Outlook creates).
- Outlook's own "Inbox" ended up being an IMAP folder as well, which we
  found funny, as that means you download mail via POP3 just to move it
  back onto the server via IMAP...
- We have also added a forwarding rule on the server using the webinterface,
  which forwards all non-ical mail to another folder. This was suggested
  in doc3 and the reason we chose this was to minimize the amount of
  mails that needs to go through POP3. We can see all "normal" mail go to
  the additional folder just fine and all meeting requests do end up in
  INBOX (and thus get fetched via POP3).
- Upon running POP3, all mail in INBOX on the server ends up in Outlook's
  "Inbox".
- 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.

Maybe I need to contact Toltec directly.

Cheerio,

Thomas