Re: [Davical-general] Client-Side Email Scheduling

[Andrew R. <an...@et...>]

Hey Kim,

On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 10:15 +0200, Kim Haverblad via Davical-general wrote:
> Question 1) or rather clarification when ticking the 'Prefer client-side
> email scheduling' in Thunderbirds preferences for a specific calendar. Is
> this option to be understood that any invite will always be sent via email
> to the receiver and for them to accept on their end (using same Davical
> server) prior it being saved/stored also to the server? Beside the tick-
> box in Thunderbird is there any tweaks necessary on the server side and/or
> user profile?

Using "client-side email scheduling" means that Thunderbird will send email
meeting invites (aka ics files) to the other attendees of the meeting. They
then reply via email, and Thunderbird processes them and updates the event
in your calendar. No tweaks server side are required.

This is how I've always handled meeting invites.

> Question 2) would this then also allow for users who is not on the same
> Davical server including not using Davical server but  other calendar
> functions such as Microsoft, Google, Apples, etc. to receive meetings
> invites? Asking since while I've primary kept the Davical calendar
> function within the family there are now request to be able to send
> invites outside of the family.

Correct, it will allow you to send invites to people using other calendar
servers. It will also work with people on the same calendar server.

DAViCal does have some support for sending meeting invites to other calendar
servers and receiving the responses, but it sadly isn't complete.

Cheers,
Andrew

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