Re: [Patch] ical improvements

Hi Albrecht!

On 02/01/2020 08:11:35 AM Sat, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> attached is a patch with a number of small improvements regarding libical support:
> 
> (1) Debian oldstable (stretch) comes with libical2, but seems to work flawlessly with the new code using libical, so we can reduce the requirement to libical2 instead of libical3.
> (2) Apparently, M$ Exchange and/or Outlook are broken (surprise!) and do not process iCal “REPLY” messages containing exactly the fields as required by RFC 5546, sect. 3.2.3.  Needles to mention that Thunderbird, Kontact, … do /not/ show any issues with them.  After adding some optional fields, the messages are recognised…  As a positive side-effect, such messages are better readable for the recipient as they contain more (redundant) information which the receiving MUA would typically extract from the invitation.
> (3) Messages containing a text/calendar part only are not really useful if the receiving MUA does not support this MIME type, but displays the “raw” format only.  As a solution, pack the text/calendar as 2nd part into a multipart/alternative, and add a text/plain part containing some human-readable information as 1st one.
> (4) Store the transmitted replies in the sentbox.
> 
> The patch applies to both the master and gmime3 branches.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Cheers,
> Albrecht.

Thanks for the patch--looks good!

I've applied to master and pushed it; I will rebase the gmime3 branch and push that too (and popover, too).

Best,

Peter

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