CalDAV Invitations & Events in Thunderbird/Lightning

[Evan L]

New thread on the same topic from 2017:
Invitations and Events in Thunderbird/Lightning with cPanel CalDAV

I am seeing the same issue with:
* cPanel 76.0.17
* Thunderbird 60.4
* Lightning 6.24

All with email accounts & CalDAV calendars on our domain - hosted by cPanel.

1, User sends me a calendar invite (they are the owner of the meeting)
2. I accept the calendar invite
3. Thunderbird switches the owner of the meeting to me
4. I automatically receive an invite email from myself

Has there been any progress on this since 2017? The thread above links to some suggested bug fixes in Horde and Thunderbird.

Anyone have a workaround that works with Thunderbird?

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hi @Evan L


Those cases noted in the referenced thread all indicate they've been resolved. Now that you've gotten the calendar sorted out is this still an issue?

 

[Evan L]

Hi @Evan L


Those cases noted in the referenced thread all indicate they've been resolved. Now that you've gotten the calendar sorted out is this still an issue?

 

[Evan L]

Hi Lauren,

Yes, this an open issue for me. (I discovered it after resolving the prior one).

Seems like the solution from 2017 was to use the Horde web client for accepting meeting invites. I'm wondering if anyone has found a better workaround (ideally something that works with Thunderbird).

Thanks!

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @Evan L,

cPanel & WHM version 76 includes a version of Horde with the patch/fix noted on the following Horde bug report:

Tickets :: [#13664] accept event to Horde CalDAV calendar from Thunderbird Lightning parses Attendees

However, as noted in the recent comments on the above Horde bug report, the patch provided by Horde does not fully solve the issue. I recommend opening a new bug report with Horde that includes the step-by-step instructions of how you are reproducing the issue.

I do want to point out that we are exploring the addition of a new plugin for cPanel & WHM version 80 that will add support for CCS. It's still tentative, but we should know in the next couple of weeks if this will make it's way into the product as a plugin in version 80. I'll update this thread with more information as it becomes available.

Thank you.

 

[insightsguy]

Hi. My server is running

cPanel Version

82.0 (build 16)

I believe I'm running Horde Groupware 5.2.22

I'm having the same issues that when I accept a calendar invite using a caldav connection, it always recreates the appointment and sends it back to the original meeting organizer as if I sent out the meeting.

It does not behave that way if I accept the meeting within Horde.

What do I need to do to correct this behavior.

Thanks

KH

Here is the text that it sends out.

[email protected] wants to notify you about changes in "Test appointment".

Start:	12/19/2019 9:00 am
End:	12/19/2019 9:59 am
Summary:	Test appointment
Description:	-::~:~::~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~::~:~::- Please do not edit this section of the description. View your event at Google Calendar EDITED:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~::~:~::-

Attendees:

Name	Role	Status
[email protected]	Required Participant	Accepted
[email protected]	Required Participant	Accepted

Possible Conflicts:

 

[rik345]

to all who posted here: i finally got multiple IMAP and exchange accounts in combination with calendars and calendar invites working, not in Thunderbird but in Outlook. Pity cause i prefer Thunderbird, but i just need calendar invites to work appropriately.
For those who are interested, here's how to get it to work in Outlook (also not easy, but after initial setup it works):

Re: email client that is able to handle calendar invites with multiple email/calendar accounts

alright so I'm posting here a guide for how to get this all working in Outlook, in case anyone else needs it: Set up a different calendar for each email account, by deleting all Exchange accounts (restart Outlook) + then set each IMAP account to be the default email account + also the default...

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