[Kde-pim] Sending invitations to Outlook users

[Michael S. Mikowski]

As I and perhap 5 others in my company use Kontact with Exchange 2003, 
this would be wonderful!

On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 21:50, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I can only say that the patch is necessary when you have to
> > > communicate with an MS Exchange 200x server. IMHO It does not
> > > help when you want to communicate  with a plain OL without
> > > Exchange server and still have problems that invitations are only
> > > seen as attachment (in OL)
> > >
> > >> Was there a commit?
> > >
> > > I don't think so.  Jan-Pascals code works here perfect but a
> > > config option and a GUI for configuration is missing. As long as
> > > such a config option is documented the latter is not that
> > > important ;-)
> >
> > We had an ambitious plan for checking all possible client-server
> > combinations, but that turned out to be way too much work. I second
> > Thorsten that all that is needed is a config option, and maybe a
> > GUI. For all people that need to exchange invitations and such with
> > others in Microsoft-land, it would be very useful!
> >
> > I'm not sure if I can find enough round tuits to delve into KDE
> > config management for this patch, but I will if I can :-)
>
> Config management is pretty easy nowadays. All you have to do is add
> a new entry to kmail.kcfg like the following one:
> =====
>       <entry name="OutlookCompatibleAttachments" type="Bool">
>         <label>Outlook-compatible attachment naming</label>
>         <whatsthis>Turn this option on to make Outlook ™
> understand attachment names containing non-English
> characters</whatsthis>
>         <default>false</default>
>       </entry>
> =====
>
> I suggest to add the new entry to the "Groupware" group.
>
> You can access the value of this config key via
>     GlobalSettings::self()->outlookCompatibleAttachments()
> and set it via
>     GlobalSettings::self()->setOutlookCompatibleAttachments( ... )
>
> If you need more information about this I suggest reading the KConfig
> XT tutorial
> (http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Using_KConfig_XT).
>
> Regards,
> Ingo



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Michael S. Mikowski
Software Engineering Manager
ValueClick Search
ValueClick Inc.
818.575.4587
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