Actually, something's wrong within the VTIMEZONE block that OM generates.
I tried with a different VTIMEZONE definition and it worked fine with 
DTSTART;TZID=.. and Outlook 2003.
Will try to pinpoint the code that actually breaks OL2003 compatibility.

--- On Thu, 2/7/13, Vieri <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Vieri <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ical ics embedded
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 5:18 AM

Hi Maxim,

The problem seems to be with the iCal document format.

Does not work with Outlook 2003:

DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20130207T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20130207T112000

Works with Outlook 2003:

DTSTART:20130207T110000Z
DTEND:20130207T112000Z

So it seems to have something to do with the time zone.

Hope that helps.

Vieri

--- On Thu, 2/7/13, Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]> wrote:

I believe this is related to 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENMEETINGS-476I had plans to fix this, 
but this
 might be postponed due to upcoming release of 2.1


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Vieri <[email protected]> wrote:

Do you happen to have documentation or reference on the web regarding the types 
of ics attachments?


--- On Wed, 2/6/13, Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]> wrote:



Different OL versions require different type of ics attachment... it was hard 
to satisfy them all.
On Feb 7, 2013 2:43 AM, "Vieri" <[email protected]> wrote:


I'll check tomorrow but I believe my Outlook version is 2003.
However, I recall using Sogo (groupware http://www.sogo.nu/english.html), 
creating a calendar event through its web interface and receiving the email on 
an Outlook 2003 client (the same one I'm using to receive the OM calendar event 
notifications) which displayed it "inline"/embedded. Someday if I find the time 
I may compare the two types of email messages (OM vs Sogo).


Anyway, not a big deal...

Vieri

--- On Wed, 2/6/13, Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]> wrote:



From: Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ical ics embedded
To: "user" <[email protected]>


Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 9:34 AM

I believe it should work as you describe it with latest Outlook.If I'm not 
mistaken I test it with OL2007, Thunderbird and Gmail




On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Vieri <[email protected]> wrote:



Hi,



The iCal ics emails sent by OM to any email client I use (eg. MS Outlook) work 
fine but the ics file appears as an attachment and I need to open it before 
being able to accept or not a calendar event.

When I generate calendar events from email clients (such as MS Outlook) and 
send them to myself, the email messages are different, as if the ics data were 
"embedded" in the email body. So as soon as I open the email (not the 
attachment) Outlook allows me to immediately accept, deny, etc.




I'm not sure how to modify OM in order to enable this. I'm not even sure if 
it's just an email mime formatting issue or if it's an ICS formatting issue 
(method:PUBLISH or something...).



Maybe someone on this list already solved this issue (ie. embed ics into email 
body so user doesn't require to open attachment in most modern email clients)?



Thanks,



Vieri






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