[Kroupware] OL2000 Tasks revisited

[Stephan Buys]

Hi,

Does this happen in OL 2002 as well? Are there any actions being taken 
on this?

I am trying to send task request between Outlook 2000 clients.

Regards,
Stephan

On Thursday 08 May 2003 12:26, Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2003 10:56 schrieb Stephan Buys:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Have you had any success with this (very old) bug? I have Outlook 2000
> > available if you still need sample data. I came accross this little
> > problem in a presentation yesterday :-)
> >
> > In the meantime I will use the caveat you described below to get around
> > the problem.
> >
> > > What kind of attribute or attribute contents have to be
> > > in the ldap structure or OL2000 to identify the other user
> > > as windat capable?
>
> Basically the following happens with OL.
>
> Historically OL had major problems because it was sending windat mails to
> parties (e.g OL Express, Netscape,..) not beeing able to interpret this
> proprietary stuff.
>
> So OL tries to guess who is capable of receiving windat mails. OL knows
> that other clients connected to exchange know windat and assumes that
> clients "communicating via the Internet / SMTP" cannot cope with windat
> mails.
>
> Behind windat is a small MAPI database which is encapsulated in TNEF. Part
> of the problem comes from the fact that OL uses an OL variant of RTF
> internally.
>
> (E.g. OL is _not_ able to display html but uses an html to rtf converter
> when displaying an html email. After editing the RTF this stuff is then
> converted back to html when dealing with "internet clients". The problem
> does not arise when purely communicating between OL clients using the
> exchange server)
>
> Regards,
> -- martin
>
> Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
>
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