[kronolith] Newbie question: Horde groupware 5.2.6 and Calendar interface

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> Am 14.06.2016 um 23:40 schrieb Chris Grant:
>> I have a concern regarding the functionality of accepting a calendar
>> invitation.  This morning, as an end user, I accepted an invitation that
>> was originally sent to 274 recipients a week ago.  I had opened the email
>> with the invitation and chose 'Accept' from the listbox at the bottom of
>> the email in Horde email.  However, I had no idea that Horde was then
>> immediately sending an email to all of the 274 recipients with the
>> following type of content:
>>
>> *"<my name with no brackets> wishes to make you aware of "Demonstration:
>> New Data Advice and Data Delivery Website".*
>> It then inclucluded all the original email content.
>>
>> It never saved a copy of that email in the sent directory/folder and I only
>> found out that it had even emailed everyone, rather than just the original
>> sender, until I started seeing 'out of office' responses and getting email
>> from others on the list explaining that they already knew of the meeting
>> (from a week ago).
>>
>> Imagine the confusion by many recipients when they get this strange email
>> from a consultant that they don't know.  Some of them replied to ask who I
>> am and do I represent the meeting host organization.  I was dumb founded.
>>
>> Is this blind response to all invitees by design? I use MS Outlook also
>> (for many years) and I'm fairly confident that it only replies to the
>> original sender and only if I chose that option in Outlook.  If I chose
>> simply to 'accept', then no reply is even sent.
>>
>> Now I'm very apprehensive to use Horde calendar to accept invitations
>> because I don't seem to have any control over what is sent and to whom and
>> certainly don't have a record of anything even being sent.
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on this please?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Chris
> Hallo Chris,
>
> the development version of horde already addresses this issue which only
> happens when the original creator of the event is not one of the horde
> calendar users. You can either use the development version of Horde -
> which may have yet unknown errors - or wait for the release.


Still, the iTip reply should not have been triggered by Kronolith  
during import of the event via the API, though this might happen if  
manually editing the event via Kronolith's interface - though you  
would be asked about sending invitations.

Perhaps this is being done in IMP's iTip code.

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