RE: [Evolution] Appointments with Outlook

["Jeppe, Nils" <Nils Jeppe usd de>]

Hello Lonnie,

I have sought out information on MS tech support and indeed: They say that
iCal sending/receiving is available only in when running outlook 2k in
"internet only" mode. Ah, gotta love lock-in-tactics..... not.

:-(

At least now we know.

Best wishes,
Nils

-----Original Message-----
From: Lonnie Borntreger [mailto:email borntreger com]
Sent: Montag, 19. November 2001 16:33
To: Evolution List
Subject: RE: [Evolution] Appointments with Outlook


Hmm.  That's even worse than me.  Going from Evolution->Outlook is not a
problem for me.  I just double-click the .ics attachment, and Outlook
opens it in an Appointment form.  It will accept and reply to a meeting
notice from Evolution that way.  My problems are from Outlook->Evolution

I am using Outlook in Internet Only mode, so that may make a difference
in having it recognize the .ics attachment.  I really don't know.


On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 08:28, Jeppe, Nils wrote:
    Hello Lonnie,
    
    Thanks for the reply.
    
    I am using Outlook 2000. You are right, if I save the .ics File to Disk
then
    tell Outlook to import it, it shows up in the Calendar. Maybe someone
knows
    of, well, a more elegant way? Clearly this is pretty unusable for actual
    use. :-(
    
    Best wishes,
    Nils
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Lonnie Borntreger [mailto:email borntreger com]
    Sent: Montag, 19. November 2001 15:01
    To: Evolution List
    Subject: Re: [Evolution] Appointments with Outlook
    
    
    What version of Outlook?  Only Outlook 2000 or newer supports the iCal
    format which is used by evolution.
    
    I don't know if this is a but, but to do Outlook 2000 -> evolution, I
    have to forward the meeting as an iCal attachment, save this as a file
    and import it.  I get no option to directly save to the calendar.  If I
    send a meeting request in iCal format, and evolution just shows the iCal
    text inline as plain text.
    
    
    On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 03:44, Jeppe, Nils wrote:
        Hello People,
        
        My advanced apologies if I am just missing something obvious or have
    been
        avoiding hitting the correct URL in my research. Here goes my
problem: I
    am
        trying to make Evolution talk to my Outlook in regards to
appointments.
    The
        Evolution "Features" page lists this as possible, but all I get on
my
        outlook are emails with files named calendar.ics attached. MS
Outlook
    seems
        pretty much unable to handle these.
        
        I'd be grateful for any help.
        
        (Version of Evolution: 0.99.1, installed via Red Carpet on RedHat
7.0.)
        
        Best wishes,
        Nils
        
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    -- 
    TTFN,
    Lonnie Borntreger
    
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