Control: forwarded -1 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3354
Hi Paul, On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:18:00 +0100 Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin > Version: 3.11.1-3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have been experimenting with Claws Mail for calendaring and found that > when cancelling events as an organiser, Claws (or rather the vCalendar > plugin) sends a mail with an inappropriate Content-Type parameter for the > scheduling method. > > According to RFC 6047 (iMIP)... > > "The [RFC2045] "Content-Type" header field MUST also include the MIME > parameter "method". The value MUST be the same (ignoring case) as the > value of the "METHOD" property within the iCalendar object." > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6047#section-2.4 > > However, in a cancellation object, METHOD will be CANCEL, and thus the > Content-Type must also employ a method parameter with the value "CANCEL". > Instead, Claws' vCalendar plugin seems to use "REQUEST". > > The upstream code that is probably responsible for this is here: > > http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=blob;f=src/plugins/vcalendar/vcal_manager.c;h=a21c6a859f888fa3f8950e381dc4f9122e9903f3;hb=HEAD#l1238 > > Here is what is produced: > > Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > BEGIN:VCALENDAR > VERSION > :2.0 > PRODID > :-//Claws Mail//NONSGML Claws Mail Calendar//EN > CALSCALE > :GREGORIAN > METHOD > :CANCEL > > Note the mismatch between the Content-Type method value and the iCalendar > METHOD property. Right, code seems to ignore cancellations and uses request type as fallback. > I hope this is informative! Apologies in advance if I should have reported > this directly upstream. No problem, I'm forwarding it now. Thanks for the detailed report. best regards, -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.»
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