evolution doesn't recognize meeting requests with the "Prefer plain-text" plugin enabled

[Scott Sweeny]

Binary package hint: evolution

If the "Prefer plain-text" plugin is active, evolution will not recognize meeting requests. Instead of the Accept, Decline, etc. buttons evo just shows a plain-text representation of the meeting information.

This is evolution 2.12.1-0ubuntu1 on gutsy.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, can you tell us few steps for trigger the bug? thanks.

[Scott Sweeny (ssweeny)]

* Enable the "Prefer plain-text" plugin from the Edit->Plugins menu.
* Have someone send you a meeting request.

Instead of the fancy display with the accept and decline buttons, you'll see a plain text message that lists the date, time, and place of the meeting along with any notes.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Is this reproducible with another new user created on your machine? That works fine for me, thanks.

[Scott Sweeny (ssweeny)]

Sorry to take so long to reply.

Yes, I've reproduced it with a new user and on seperate machines.

I forgot to add that in the preferences window under "Mail Preferences" and the "HTML Mail" tab you have to select "Prefer PLAIN" or "Only ever show PLAIN".

It occurs to me also to mention that these meeting requests are being sent from Outlook, not from Evolution.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Scott Sweeny (ssweeny)]

Running on an up-to-date hardy machine, the full meeting request (buttons and all) now shows up below the text representation, which is acceptable behavior to me.

[Daniel Sargeant (dsargeant)]

The bug seems to be reintroduced with the update to version 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 in hardy. I disabled the plain-text plugin and the meeting buttons were restored.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that similar to bug #231091?

[Daniel Sargeant (dsargeant)]

Yes, it seems to be the same bug.