Re: [Evolution] scheduling/appointment from evolution to outlook in 1.0.1 broke?

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 12:49, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> I used to be able to schedule an appointment in evolution, select
> recipients, and send the message--and have that be understood by outlook
> clients.  However, using evolution 1.0.1 and libcamel 1.0.1 from debian
> unstable, what shows up in outlook is just "Event Information".

The problem is that Outlook's iCalendar support sucks, and different
versions of Outlook suck in different ways, also depending on whether
they are talking to an Exchange server or an IMAP/POP server.

Shortly after Evo 1.0 was released, we discovered that we could only
send iCalendar requests to Outlook users who *weren't* using Exchange.
Given that scheduling is done more often in Exchange environments than
in non-Exchange environments, we switched this to work the other way for
1.0.1. You can get the old behavior back by setting the environment
variable "EVOLUTION_SEND_IMIP_AS_ATTACHMENT" in evolution-calendar's
environment.

In Evo 1.2 (not 1.0.2) it will be fixed to work with either version, but
this requires some fairly messy code changes.

Oh, also, I believe Outlook XP does the right thing with either format
whether or not you're using Exchange.

-- Dan