[Kde-pim] kmail KF5 and invitation attachments

[Daniel Vrátil]

On 2016-04-27 17:23, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 27. April 2016 11:23:14 CEST Daniel Vrátil wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 8:36:07 AM CEST Martin Koller wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > was the support for ics attachments removed from kmail KF5 (kmail Version
>> > 5.2.0) ? I no longer see the buttons inside an invitation mail allowing me
>> > to accept/reject/comment... an invitation	.
>> 
>> There currently seems to be a bug when displaying invitation. If you 
>> enable
>> View -> Show Message Structure and then select the top-level node in 
>> the
>> structure tree, you will magically get not one, but two previews of 
>> the
>> invitations :-)
> 
> This is not happening here.
> In the message structure I see 1 toplevel node with 3 subnodes
> - plain text body
> - html body
> - VCS/ICS body
> 
> double-clicking on the top node just shows the mail body (plain text)
> but without any chance to accept/decline the invitation

Wierd, that worked for me.

> 
> switching to HTML display does the same - no accept/decline buttons
> 
> double-clicking on the VCS/ICS part just shows in plain text the ICS
> content, e.g. like
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> METHOD:REQUEST
> PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
> VERSION:2.0
> ...
> 
> 
> Do you have any way to show the accept/decline buttons ?
> Without being able to act on such an invitation, I simply can not work
> and kmail is useless.
> I just need to know if it SHOULD work and HOW I can manage to do so -
> even with some workaround.
> Otherwise I need to go back to the KDE4 version, which I would like to 
> avoid.

This is a longshot, but you could try to open the .ics attachments in 
KOrganizer
and add it to your calendar, then you should be able to edit your 
presence response
and have KOrganizer send the update to organizer. It's very 
inconvenient, but I
can't think of anything better atm.


Dan

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