[Kde-pim] Sending invitations to Outlook users

[David Faure]

On Saturday 05 May 2007, Thorsten Staerk wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007 15:49:47 Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 May 2007 9:17:11 am Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> > > Thorsten Staerk wrote:
> > > > I tested kdepim 3.5 from today. Accepting Outlook invitations works,
> > > > the dates are entered into my korganizer calendar. Sending invitations
> > > > from my korganizer calendar works as well. As most of the mail history
> > > > has been deleted: Is there a bug that describes exactly what we want to
> > > > do here ?
> > >
> > > 1. sending invitation from Kontact to Outlook+Exchange, accepting in
> > > Outlook, seeing meeting in Outlook calendar and "invitation accepted"
> > > in Kontact
> > >
> > > 2. sending invitation from Outlook+Exchange to Kontact, accepting in
> > > Kontact, seeing "invitation accepted" in Outlook, and meeting in
> > > calendar in Kontact
> > >
> > > 3. changing meeting details (date/time, title, location) in Kontact for
> > > a meeting that has been initiated in Kontact and accepted by the Outlook
> > > user. The Outlook use should then get the changed details in his or her
> > > calendar.
> >
> > Are we testing with the patch I committed last night into the 3.5 branch?
> >
> yes
> > Is it working as expected?
> For the usecase "receiving invitations with kmail" it is, with two exceptions: 
> - people @ work tend not to have time to fiddle around with program options. I 
> pledge for setting "Exchange Compatibility Invitations" as default. Without 
> it, kmail is nearly useless for me.
> - when replying with kmail to an invitation, the subject should be - as it is 
> done normally - changed to "The sender accepts the meeting invitations" 
> or "The sender has declined".
> >
> > Did you try the new "Exchange Compatibility Invitations" option in the
> > Misc->Groupware configuration?
> yes

This sounds great; but iirc when some tests were done for Kolab, it was determined
that Outlook's behavior was -very- different depending on the version of Outlook;
something as crazy as "one version -only- accepts invitations inline, and another
version -only- accepts invitations as attachments", or something like that.

Can this patch get tested with the various versions of Outlook that are still around?

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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