Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

[Tanstaafl]

On 2012-02-15 5:16 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 10:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> We use Thunderbird+Lightning+Provider for Google Calendar+Google
>> Calendar here in our office, and the calendaring really is becoming
>> more and more problematic for us, mostly with respect to interacting
>> with Meeting Invites from external users of Outlook/Exchange.

> I can't answer your question, so I'll ask one instead :)  Do you have
> any idea where the problem is occurring, i.e. on the client side or on
> the Google server side?

In Thunderbird, in order to be able to interact with meeting invites 
(ie, be able to pointy-clicky the Accept/Update/Decline buttons), you 
have to enable sending emails - but there is a problem with Google 
Calendars where when you accept an update, it spams every participant 
WITH A NEW INVITE, instead of just notifying them of your acceptance... 
this causes great confusion and consternation for the other participants 
(why am I getting an invite from you for a meeting that someone else 
organized??)...

Yes, I use the Provider extension to, and its author claims that this is 
a limitation in the google API.

>> I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for a hosted calendaring
>> solution  that works well with Thunderbird+Lightning *and* deals
>> properly with meeting invites from outlook/Exchange users?

> Once again, just out of curiosity, have you tried Evolution on the client
> side to see if it has the same problems that thunderbird/lightening has?

Sadly, we are a Windows shop, and although it has admittedly been a 
while, I have seen nothing to indicate that Evolution is any better on 
Windows than it ever has been. When I played with it (last time was 
maybe a year or more ago), it was totally unusable/buggy/crashing all 
the time. Has the windows port improved to a point that I may want to 
give it another try?