Server side meeting invitations

[konmax]

Hi,

I would like to see the following new feature in Radicale:

Ability to handle server side meeting invitations (mail with ics attachment).

Some clients like Thunderbird/Lightning or most web clients can handle meeting invitations by themselves. But other clients like smart phones (e. g. Windows Phone or Android devices) are not able to send such invitations. It is possible to add persons to an event and the client (phone) does show a message that an invitation has been send but in reality no such mail was send out. This is very critical as the users thinks that all persons have been notified but this is not the case.

That is why I would like to see this feature in Radicale. It should be configurable in a way that it can be turned on/off in general, maybe even better per user and/or per client (e. g. do not send such invitations if the user is Jeff or if the client is Thunderbird but do send it out if the client is an Android device).

Konrad

[liZe]

There's a thread in the mailing about server-side invitations: http://librelist.com/browser//radicale/2014/4/8/meeting-invitations/.

[konmax]

What does milestone 2.0 mean? Does it mean that this might be part of Radicale v2.0? If so, this sounds like it will not be implemented in the next 10 years or so?!

Please do not get me wrong, but we are at 0.10 at the moment.

Thanks
Konrad

[untitaker]

I am not sure any "normal" CardDAV/CalDAV server implements this, so asking it from a supposed-to-be-lightweight server like Radicale is a bit much.

[konmax]

In the end it should not be more than sending out a mail using an and available external mail server with the meeting ics as an attachment, right? Guillaume himself said that this could be easily implemented in the attached mail thread.

Konrad

[mrgrain]

Setting a milestone for a certain features reflects its priority for the core developer team, in this case for the main developer. So, if you're waiting to get this implemented by Guillaume, you're probably right with your 10 years estimation. But, if YOU or someone else really needs this feature, why not start coding it by yourself NOW? This is how open source works. I'm quite sure a clean, tested and working solution will make its way into the main branch much earlier than 10 years. :)

[konmax]

Hmm, I'm in fact a developer, but I have never touched python so far and also not the caldav protocol. So it would better if someone with a bit more experience would implement this ;-)

Konrad

[srepmub]

sorry to post this link in two issues, but I think example code from a project which already implements most of this is much easier to understand than a collection of RFC's:

https://github.com/fruux/sabre-dav/tree/master/lib/CalDAV/Schedule

[nlincke]

Hey everyone? Are there any news regarding this topic? I really would love to send invites when i add some attendees to an appointment. Android does not send them... Clients like outlook or thunderbird do...

[srepmub]

some more comments here (after which I kind of lost interest in using radicale for my project, since it would need to support the apple stuff):

#34

[nlincke]

Thanks @srepmub . May I ask you what you have used insted? I realy like radicale but this is quite a drawback...

[srepmub]

we are looking into sabredav atm, but I'm not sure what the status there is, as I was only investigating radicale as an alternative.

[nlincke]

Thanks for the INFO. I would realy appreciate that at least invites are send...
Can some one give me a hint where inside the code is a good way to implement it? Just to speed up this... If i find time i would have a look...