Re: [Evolution] outlook compatibility

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 20:39, Cynthia Gu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I notice there is an option "Don't sign meeting requests(for Outlook
> compatibility)" on security tab of a mail account. Can anybody explain
> why this is needed to be compatible with Outlook and which versions of
> Outlook are relevant here?

If you turn on PGP signing and turn off the "don't sign meeting
requests" option, and send a meeting request to an Outlook user, they
won't be able to accept it. This is because Outlook/Exchange are very
pick about what does and doesn't count as a meeting request, and a
"text/calendar" inside a "multipart/signed" doesn't count as a meeting
request to them. (At least for PGP signing. It might work for S/MIME.)

Outlook 2000 was definitely affected. I don't know if we tested with XP.
We definitely never tested with Outlook 2003.

-- Dan