Re: [Evolution] RE: Two questions about evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Considering Outlook isn't even interoperable with Outlook... ;-)

I believe the calendar guys are looking into the issue. If I remember
correctly, it has something to do with us sending the ical mime part
inside a multipart/alternative or something (this is completely legal
btw)?

I seem to recall that if we make Evolution work with Outlook, then we
will be broken with the rest of the world or something.

Anyways, hopefully Dan Winship or someone with more knowledge of the
problem will reply and answer the question.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 21:29, Rubin Bennett wrote:
> I've seen (and posted about) this behaviour in the interaction between
> iCal items in Outlook (2000) and Evolution.  I believe it is to do with
> the format of the iCal items sent by Evo, but I can't be sure (or it
> could be something with MIME encoding/ decoding).  After patching the
> hell out of Outlook just to make sure that if it's something broken,
> it's unfixable, I resolved the issue by upgrading my winfe's system from
> Windoze XP pro to Mandrake 8.1.  Problem solved.
>
> Interestingly, Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2000 seem to suffer a similar
> issue...  Microsoft has a note about this in their knowledge basele at:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q287865
>
> Now, if I could only get all my clients who use outlook to change over
> as well...
>
> Ximian guys, any ideas?  This seems to be a consistent problem, and
> sorta puts a big hole in your claims of interoperability w/ LookOut 8^)
>
> Thanks as always for a fantastic mailer...
>
> Rubin
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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