[Kde-pim] Sending invitations to Outlook users

[Michael S. Mikowski]

On Friday 09 February 2007, Thorsten Schnebeck wrote:
> On Thursday, February 8, 2007 05:33:41 PM Jan-Pascal van 
Best wrote:
> > Thorsten Schnebeck wrote:
> > > Any news on this topic?
> >
> > Some. If I comment out the following line in
> > KMKernel::openComposer in kmail/kmkernel.cpp :
> >
> >       msgPart->setContentDisposition( attachContDisp
> > );
> >
> > the invitation is understood correctly.
>
> Very coool :-)
> yes, that makes it work with Outlook and a second test
> confirms that this does not disturb Kolab/Kontact
> either.
>
> > Maybe we need another legcy
> > setting to handle this case. But invitation replies
> > are assembled in the Callback::mailICal function. I
> > haven't been able to get that method to generate
> > invitation replies my Outlook understands.
>
> Ah, I see. An invitation that I have to accept still
> does not work. The Outlook users only gets an
> attachment mail.
>
> > > I can second the problem. If you send an IMIP
> > > invitation outlook 2003 can not handle Kontacts
> > > format if the outlook compatible option is on or
> > > off.

[ ... ] 

> Checking bugs.kde.org with "invitation outlook"  I did
> not found anything that belongs to this topic. Shall I
> create a new one for changing/adding the outlook
> compatible option? A better way would be to have this
> setup per contact?
> If e.g. Outlook 2007 does not have this mistake any
> longer you can use standard IMIP. But if a user still
> has to use buggy Outlook 2003 a "mail client" option
> per contact would be nice.
>
> (I cc: this mail to the Kolab user ML as there are
> maybe some more users who need Outllook compatible
> invitations without using a special connector.)
>
>
> Thanks
>
>   Thorsten

Like our office with perhaps 3-4 Kontact users on Exchange 
2003 :)

-- 
Mike
www.dynaorg.com
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