Evolution 2.22.1.1 doesn't display exchange meeting invites anymore

[patis]

Hello,

Previous to the latest round of hardy updates evolution was happy dealing with meeting invites coming from our exchange server in the office. They usually showed up with a form where I would just click a button to accept/deny the invitation.

But I have that no more. Meeting invites are shown now in plain text with a URL link at the bottom that doesn't work for me. Something like this:


When: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:30 PM-4:00 PM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada).
Where: Main office, Bridge: 325-5333, passcode 726# External 697-754-7562

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Microsoft Outlook Web Access: http://ZCAXM0/Exchange/PATIS/Inbox/Finalize%20slide%2016%20-%20atics.EML?cmd=open


How can I get the old behavior restored (without having to downgrade evolution)? Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks.

[grahams]

I reported this as a bug in evolution a few weeks ago. Surprising that 8.04 LTS (Long term support?) pick this up without a critical fix.

Anyone heard of QA?

The fix is to go back to the previous evolution release.

[cro]

The fix is to go back to the previous evolution release.

Downgrading was a major headache, and for those who are having problems, try this:

REMOVE evolution first, all bar the required 'evolution-data-server-common'. You may have to remove some other packages because of required (but not actually required) dependencies.

Then DOWNGRADE evolution-data-server-common to 2.22.1-0ubuntu2

Once this has been done, Force Version 2.22.1 for evolution, evolution-common, evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange.

This will restore the ability for Evolution to properly deal with "urn:content-classes:calendarmessage" type messages, and properly display the Accept, Tentative, Decline and Open Calendar buttons.

Until this issue is resolved, Evolution cannot be used as a Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Outlook replacement in any organisation that relies on Exchange for calendaring.

One last thing, because this process forces an earlier version than the currently-available (Hardy Updates), these packages will persistently be marked for upgrade, so make sure to disable automatic upgrades until this bug is fixed - just make sure to untick all these components whenever you run upgrade manager.

[Spyplane]

This is so frustrating, and one of my complaints of all the recent updates. How are we losing features by doing updates? Time to start downgrading.

[Spyplane]

I fixed the problem:

Go to: Edit-> Preferences-> Mail Preferences-> HTML Messages Tab-> Plain Text Mode Section

Then change setting "HTML Mode" to "Prefer PLAIN"

This will fix your problem.

[patis]

Indeed, enabling this option shows the form at the bottom of the message. The text-only version still shows up at the top. It is still a bug though which I hope will be fixed soon.

Thank you for the hint.

[djcrash1981]

I'm having this trouble to and it's so annoying.

The bypass worked for me but someone knows when this is going to be solve??? Or how can I fill a report???

Thanks

[mailmrg]

this blog seems to have identified the plugin that screwing things up
http://geek.co.il/wp/2008/06/11/evolution-problems-with-ms-outlook-invitations