maemo.org Bugzilla – Bug 9296
Exchange event invitations scheduled without a prompt
Last modified: 2010-05-12 15:43:23 UTC
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SOFTWARE VERSION: 2.2009.51-1.003 EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 1. I receive a new email with an event notification from the MfE account EXPECTED OUTCOME: I get asked whether I want to attend the event. ACTUAL OUTCOME: The event is scheduled for me, whether I want to attend it or not. REPRODUCIBILITY: always EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED: Some, nothing related. OTHER COMMENTS: In my company, public presentation invitations are sent through Exchange. However, I'm not interested in most of them. I would like to make the choice whether to insert the meeting to my calendar myself. I don't know much about these applications and I don't know what's the expected behavior for most. But my friend with an iphone can make this choice (some notification may be sent to the meeting creator, I'm not sure). A configuration option "Schedule events automatically / Schedule events manually" and a button on the bottom bar while viewing the invitation email would be totally sufficient. For the record, the version of Microsoft Exchange in question seems to be 2007 (guessing just from the year in the copyright...).
Hi, does this also still happen in 3.2010.02-8?
Hi, short answer: yes. Long answer: I had the package mp-frematle-003-pr uninstalled, because I uninstalled hildon-welcome-default-logo. Therefore the version in system info didn't update (I reckon). However, I had the underlying packages updated through apt-get. I installed the mp-frematle-003-pr (version 3.2010.02-8.003) because of you now and no other packages got updated, so it should be the same. I didn't test the bug since then, but since there were no changes to the packages, I don't expect any change in behavior.
Vitaly, do you know if the current behaviour is expected (=unsupported feature request) or should a prompt be displayed here (=valid bug)?
If I get your point, you're asking whether the prompt should be there and just doesn't get displayed due to a bug or the functionality is missing completely? Well, I do not know. But if I was to make a guess I'd say since its just not there its most probably because nobody implemented it. Though it is unexpected behavior for me.
Testing again with 3.2010.02-8 is highly welcome.
Why? You wanna keep me entertained? :) I did. There's no change. I just have one more information: I turned the calendar synchronization on (I had to turn it off before, the notifications were bothering me constantly) and tried to force it to schedule the upcoming meetings for which I already received the invitations. I tried syncyng the email manually and opening the emails in question. Nothing happened. Then some time later (about 1 day, though I'm not sure if I checked the calendar inbetween) all my meetings (upcoming and about 2 weeks back) appeared in the calendar. So the meetings get apparently synced to the calendar all at once on some event unknown to me (or maybe I failed somewhere in the process and its more simple). However, I believe it should be easy to find in the source code and implementation of some confirmation should not be too time-consuming either.
(In reply to comment #7) > Why? You wanna keep me entertained? :) Not really, looks like I'm too stupid to read my previous comments before asking. Sorry...
"3.2010.02-8 doesn't have "meeting invitations" feature. All invitations are shown as regular emails. It is implemented on the next public update (PR1.2). Even when it is not implemented, Exchange server/Outlook can be configured with "auto-accept" feature or with a feature when it creates all unconfirmed events as "tentative" events in user's calendar. This is not controlled by activesync protocol at all." Closing as FIXED. To answer popular followup questions: * Nokia does not announce release dates of public updates in advance. * There is currently no access to these internal, non-public build versions. A Brainstorm proposal to change this exists at http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/undelayed_bugfix_releases_for_nokia_open_source_packages-002/