[Tickets #13802] Re: Kronolith with iCal sends out to many notifications

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Ticket-URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/13802
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  Ticket           | 13802
  Aktualisiert Von | sebastian at fuchs.ws
  Zusammenfassung  | Kronolith with iCal sends out to many notifications
  Warteschlange    | Kronolith
  Version          | 4.2.4
  Typ              | Bug
  Status           | Duplicate
  Priorität        | 2. Medium
  Milestone        |
  Patch            |
  Zuständige       |
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sebastian at fuchs.ws (2015-01-15 09:40) hat geschrieben:

thanks for your fast reply!

>> This might be (is) an iCal issue, but anyway:
>>
>> When accepting invitations by email (ics) with OSX (10.10.1) using
>> iCal the event initially gets added and auto-accepted (!) to the
>> wrong calender and and email is send out to all attendees and the
>> organizer. Even if "Don't send me a notification if I've added,
>> changed or deleted the event" and "Choose if you want to be notified
>> of new, edited, and deleted events by email" in the user prefs
>> (Calendar > Notifications) are disabled.
>
> Where the event is saved is up to the client, nothing we can do  
> about. I guess you use iCal to access Kronolith via CalDAV? You  
> didn't mention this but from the context this is what I assume.

correct, iCal access Kronolith via CalDAV.
with every new version iCal for non-iCloud users gets worse and worse ...

>
>> then, when moving the event to the correct calendar (all are horde
>> carddav calendars) the event gets cancelled (sends email to attendees
>> and organizer) and accepeted again (sends email to attendees and
>> organizer).
>>
>> this behaviour seems to be new. it's unclear to me why iCal is
>> triggering these emails (maybe https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/3965#c15
>> ?), even if all notifications are turned off.
>
> Yes, this is a duplicate of this and several other tickets.

this is indeed a showstopper. it might be iCal producing this error,  
however horde should not send so many emails especially if set in user  
prefs not to send any notifications

>
>> another question: isn't horde able to handle internal invitations
>> (users are known to horde!) just internally, without the need to send
>> emails?
>
> Because this is not how the iTip standard for event organization  
> works. We could implement a separate planning infrastructure just  
> for internal users, but noone has come up with an implementation or  
> intent to sponsor such development yet.

ok, so my understanding of Horde after several months of testing for  
small companies is: just use the web interface! do not try to use with  
os clients, it generates unexpected behaviour especially on OSX.

>
>> A user creates a new event in iCal or horde webinterface and
>> Kronolith places the event to the known user's calendar as tentative.
>> Only external users (email adresses not known by horde user
>> management) should get emails (ONCE or on usefull updates ;-)
>