Re: Attendee - Lightning not adhering to RFC standard?

On 10/21/17 6:30 PM, Do Daham wrote:
> Thunderbird 52.4.0
> Lightning 5.4.4
> 
> When adding "attendees" (also known as participants) to an event, in the ICS it looks like this:
> ATTENDEE;RSVP=TRUE;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT:Mister Bean
> 
> However, iCalender RFC 2445 states:
> "The property parameter CN is for the common or displayable name associated with the calendar address"
> 
> Therefore it should look like this:
> ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;CN=Mister Bean
> 
> Also: I can not change the status (partstat) manually using the GUI of Lightning.
> 

I'm not exactly sure how you entered it, but if you just put "Mister
Bean" into the attendee field, then this will be considered the email.
Certainly you could argue that Lightning should detect this is not an
email address or otherwise schemed attendee.

The RFC (5545 is more up to date, but same content in this case) also
requires a value, which is the attendee email or identifier. So you'd
need something like this:

ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;CN=Mister
  Bean:mailto:[email protected]

Philipp