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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Sending invitations to Outlook users
From:       Jan-Pascal van Best <janpascal () vanbest ! org>
Date:       2007-01-26 8:39:22
Message-ID: 45B9BE3A.6060605 () vanbest ! org
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Andreas Gungl wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2007 22:00 schrieb Jan-Pascal van Best:
>   
>> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 22 January 2007 17:52, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to send invitations from Kontact/KOrganizer (Kontact
>>>> v1.2.3, Korganizer v3.5.5, KDE v3.5.5 from Debian Etch) to Outlook
>>>> 2000 or 2003 using an Exchange 2003 server, or using Outlook Web
>>>> Access on the same server. Outlook and OWA show invitations from
>>>> KOrganiser as an e-mail with an attachtment. When opening the
>>>> attachment they complain they do not know the appointment concerned.
>>>> The settings in
>>>> KMail/Misc/Groupware did not help me (invitations, oddly enough,
>>>> still show as e-mails with attachments).
>>>>         
>>> Enabling "Send invitations in the mail body" didn't help?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ingo
>>>       
>> No, that did not make any difference in the way the invitations are
>> shown in Outlook. I looked at the source of the e-mail, and I could see
>> that it was just the vcal data, but it still showed in Outlook as an
>> e-mail with an attachment.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jan-Pascal
>>     
>
> IIRC to make Outlook handle the invitation correctly, the message must be 
> fetched via POP3. The Toltec people argue that IMAP in Outlook doesn't handle 
> the invitation correctly.
>   
I use neither: my Outlook connects to an Exchange 2003 server, which
uses neither POP3 or IMAP but a properietary protocol. But I'll check
what happens when I have Outlook fetch mail using either POIP3 or IMAP.
It's not an option though for the people I exchange invitations with.

Cheers

Jan-Pascal

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