2012 and this still is not fixed? Google guys: help us!!
Geoff
issues seem to be present. The only way to accept an invitation into
my google calender results in re-issuing the invite to all attendees.
Lewis G Rosenthal
On 03/08/12 09:30 am, Geoff thus wrote :
> I'm on latest TB / lightning (on ubuntu 11.10) and exactly the same
> issues seem to be present. The only way to accept an invitation into
> my google calender results in re-issuing the invite to all attendees.
>
Geoff, could you please provide either a step-by-step scenario for your
issue or point to a specific bug? I am not seeing this, likely because I
*rarely* send or receive meeting invitations (just not the way I work).
Every time I've tested it, though, it seems to work for me.
Thanks!
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Wyte
I also did encounter this while using GData Provider.
Scenario:
Somebody, who is using MS Outlook creates an event and invites some
people from his corporation and also you as an external co-worker to
it.
Then Outlook sends you an eMail with the event invitation.
In Thunderbird you receive it and you accept it with the buttons
provided in the GUI.
The event is then added to your calendar (after you have selected the
right one, in case you have more).
From here on I don't know whether it is a problem in the GData
provider or on Google side, but
the event is then re-published to all attendees, as if I myself had
created it.
It seems like the GData Provider OR Google can not differ whether this
is an event created by the user
or just an accepted external invitation.
So every attendee receives an invitation for the same event again, but
this time it looks like you are the inviter.
This is confusing a lot of people (including myself).
I hope I could shed some light on that topic.
Kind regards
-Wyte-
On 8 Mrz., 17:38, Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosent...@2rosenthals.com>
wrote:
Lewis G Rosenthal
On 03/09/12 04:32 am, Wyte thus wrote :
> Hi Lewis,
>
> I also did encounter this while using GData Provider.
> Scenario:
> Somebody, who is using MS Outlook creates an event and invites some
> people from his corporation and also you as an external co-worker to
> it.
> Then Outlook sends you an eMail with the event invitation.
> In Thunderbird you receive it and you accept it with the buttons
> provided in the GUI.
> The event is then added to your calendar (after you have selected the
> right one, in case you have more).
> > From here on I don't know whether it is a problem in the GData
> provider or on Google side, but
> the event is then re-published to all attendees, as if I myself had
> created it.
> It seems like the GData Provider OR Google can not differ whether this
> is an event created by the user
> or just an accepted external invitation.
> So every attendee receives an invitation for the same event again, but
> this time it looks like you are the inviter.
> This is confusing a lot of people (including myself).
>
> I hope I could shed some light on that topic.
>
Ah, that does explain the condition a bit better; thanks. I'm scanning
the Google Calendar forum
(http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/calendar)
for possible threads which might indicate the real culprit, but so far,
have not stumbled upon anything. I'll need to run a few tests myself to
see what I get (my own server runs Communigate Pro, so at least I have
an alternate platform to send and receive invitations).
From the sounds of it, though, I would guess that somehow, we're
malforming the acceptance message. RFC 5545 defines the participation
status format here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.12. I
wondering where we may be going astray. Again, I'll need to run a test
and grab the source of the response to see what's funny. Do you know if
this is *only* happening with invitations sent from
Outbreak...er...Outlook and/or Exchange?
Thanks again for the additional input. ;-)
Another reply coming your way momentarily.
Cheers