[kronolith] "accept" vs "accept and add to my calendar"

[Calendar Debug]

Hi Jens, Jan,

Thank you both for your help!

Best regards,
Andrei

On 02/25/2013 07:25 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <jmozdzen at nde.ag>:
>
>> Hi Andrei,
>>
>> Zitat von Calendar Debug <calendar-debug at gbif.org>:
>>> On 02/25/2013 03:40 PM, Jens-U. Mozdzen wrote:
>>>> that invitation e-mail contains multiple parts - a text/html 
>>>> version that can be used to display the event information and a 
>>>> standardized calendar entry, that can be used by the MUA to create 
>>>> a special display version with MUA-specific features like "add to 
>>>> calendar".
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to have the same capability in the Outlook/MacMail?
>>>>
>>>> It's up to the MUA to select which version to display.
>>>
>>> Oh but that's only if we're talking a "nice" accept form. But what 
>>> if I'm content with only a link/URL?
>>
>> I wouldn't like that too much, but that a personal opinion. In 
>> general, that link would have to be generated by the entity sending 
>> the invitation.
>>
>> If that sending entity would be Horde/kronolith, it would have to 
>> detect that the destination email address is actually linked with a 
>> (local) kronolith calendar, else "ugly" (broken) links would be 
>> contained in the HTML part of the e-mail, that just serve to confuse 
>> the receiving user.
>>
>> Next, how should that receiving user's context be handled? Is an 
>> active login required? Would the resulting Horde page ask for a login 
>> if the user's currently not logged in? What if Horde's URL is 
>> different for different users? And so on...
>>
>> A lot of things to check in advance - I wouldn't hold my breath ;) 
>> And generally, that's probably why it is usually considered the 
>> receiving MUA's task and not that of the sending one...
>
> Exactly.