No invites being set out

[Sven]

Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Thunderbird 3.1.10
Lightning 1.0b2
Provider 0.14
Exchange 2010

Creating a new meeting invite does not send out any notifications.

Attached is the debug log. It may also show the results failing and then another item being created/duplicated- #711678)

<m:CreateItem SendMeetingInvitations="SendToNone">

Thunderbird/Lightning greys out the "Notify attendees" check box, but it is ticked.

[Jeff May (jeff-may3)]

I found a hear term workaround: Create the meeting on your 'local' calendar. Invites will get sent. Then edit the event to be on the Exchange calendar (so others can see your free/busy). You can switch it back to the local calendar if you need to edit the time/date/attendees, etc.

[Sven Tegethoff (sven-tegethoff)]

I have the same problem. "Notify attendees" is greyed out, invitations are not being sent. The only way to get invitations sent is to open the meeting in OWA and send invitations from there.

[Antonio Packery (antonio-packery)]

Same problem experienced using TB5 and provider version 0.16. I downgraded back to TB3 and provider 0.13 to get it working again.

[Andrew (andr3w8803-oid)]

Using TB5.0 with Lightning 1.0b5 and Provider 0.17
I'm also having problems:
"Notify attendees" is greyed out (but checked) yet no invite e-mail is sent.

[Garwood Pang (garwoodpang)]

I believe this maybe related to the "Save" and "Save and Close" bug from the double entry ticket. I have got invitations to sent out in the pre TB 5 versions via the "Save" button and not the "Save and Close". However this method no longer works in any of the TB5 compabile versions.

[Andrew (andr3w8803-oid)]

Any progress on this issue - it's pretty much a showstopper for me, as I rely on sending out invites as organising meetings, as much as I do receiving invites.

[Simon Schubert (corecode)]

I am too busy right now to address this issue right now; if somebody would take up the ball on that, it would be great.

[Garwood Pang (garwoodpang)]

I think i found the bug. On calExchange.js for function "sendMail(aItem)" ur conditional on 0.17 have

if(inv == "TRUE" || inv == true)
return "SendToAllAndSaveCopy";

but on 0.13, the one that works have

if(inv == "TRUE" || true)
return "SendToAllAndSaveCopy";

i tried it and it seems to work for me.

[Simon Schubert (corecode)]

The old conditional is certainly wrong, because it is always true.

[Garwood Pang (garwoodpang)]

Unfortunely changing that line is working for me. I can continuously alternate between the two and it is always the altered one that work.

Where does "SendToNone" go to? Im sorry but I am quite new to this.

[Simon Schubert (corecode)]

SendToNone sends no mails, as it says.

[Garwood Pang (garwoodpang)]

It seems like

if(inv != "TRUE")
return "SendToAllAndSaveCopy";

also works. So does that mean X-MOZ-SEND-INVITATIONS is being false for some reason? Could it be related to the "notify attendees" being grayed out?

[Simon Schubert (corecode)]

Hmm... possible. Maybe the provider needs to tell lightning that it has the ability to send invitations or not.

[scoopex (ms-ubuntu)]

Same Problem here with TB 7 and Plugin Release 0.17.

[Rémi LEFEVRE (rlefevre)]

X-MOZ-SEND-INVITATIONS property is deleted (therefore set to null) by lightning if the add-on return true to canNotifyAttendees(). The notify-attendees-checkbox is also disabled because of that.

So at this time, AFAIU, if an add-on handles itself notifications (as this is the case for us), it MUST send them (the user cannot choose not to). Unless there is a way to replace the checkbox with overlays ?

Refer to the following mozilla bugs for details:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690805
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580787

Attached patch always sends notifications until a way is found to let the user choose.

[Simon Schubert (corecode)]

Thanks for the patch. The problem is that users complained that on reply to an invitation the addon mistakenly sent a new invitation to all participants (different bug). So until this is fixed, we shouldn't enable the sending of invitations.

[Rémi LEFEVRE (rlefevre)]

I understand.
Anyway, the patch is disappointing at this point. The purpose was more to give background to the issue.
I hope to help resolving the situation with the lightning checkbox in the time to be able to propose a better solution, and look at the other bug eventually.

[Simon Schubert (corecode)]

Thank you for your efforts, this is very much appreciated! Let's see what the lightning developers think.

[Subito Piano (shoestringpc)]

At some point, Lightning began requiring an e-mail address/account to be associated with each calendar. So simply right-click on your calendar>properties, and associate an email account with each calendar

[Jared Warren (swarren-6)]

How can I apply the provided patch? I'm not a developer, just a user.

[Rémi LEFEVRE (rlefevre)]

I don't think that this addon is still maintained.
You should probably use this one:

http://www.1st-setup.nl/wordpress/?page_id=133

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Jared Warren <email address hidden> wrote:

> How can I apply the provided patch? I'm not a developer, just a user.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806480
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> Title:
> No invites being set out
>
> Status in Exchange Data Provider for Lightning:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
> Thunderbird 3.1.10
> Lightning 1.0b2
> Provider 0.14
> Exchange 2010
>
> Creating a new meeting invite does not send out any notifications.
>
> Attached is the debug log. It may also show the results failing and
> then another item being created/duplicated- #711678)
>
> <m:CreateItem SendMeetingInvitations="SendToNone">
>
> Thunderbird/Lightning greys out the "Notify attendees" check box, but
> it is ticked.
>
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