Re: [Evolution] New Time Proposed from M$ outlook

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:01, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> Does evolution have any support for this kind of a response from an M$
> outlook user?  This happens when I send a meeting request to someone
> who uses outlook, and they then reply with a new proposed date/time
> for the meeting.  It doesn't look like evolution knows that it's not a
> normal meeting acceptance.
>
> Anyone know anything about this?

Yes, it's part of iCalendar. Instead of sending back a normal REPLY
message accepting or rejecting the request, you send back a COUNTER
message with a counter-proposal. The organizer can than either reply
with a DECLINECOUNTER message, or accept the counterproposal and send
out a new meeting request to all participants.

There's a bug in bugzilla for supporting this (16436), tentatively
scheduled for 2.0. It shouldn't really be too hard to implement though,
so if someone else wanted to work on it, they could. (RFC 2446 describes
the relevant bits of iCalendar, and the meeting request viewer code is
in calendar/e-itip-control.c and calendar/itip-utils.c)

-- Dan