Administrator's GuideTable of Contents
This section provides help with how to make Kontact communicate effectively with various groupware solutions.
In the Kontact configuration dialog, under → on the Invitations page you will find the following options that will help the user communicate with Microsoft Outlook(tm) running in a Kolab environment or in a Microsoft Exchange(tm) environment.
- Mangle From:/To: headers in replies to invitations
Enable this option to make Microsoft Outlook(tm) understand your answers to invitation replies.
Microsoft Outlook has a number of shortcomings in its implementation of the iCalendar standard; this option works around one of them. If you have problems with Outlook users not being able to get your replies, try setting this option.
Details: When mailing an iCal invitation this makes the message have the From: header the same as the To: header. It also sets header X-KMail-Identity to the To:'s UIOD and makes sure the BCC: is blank. Outlook will only understand the reply if the From: header is the same as the To: header of the invitation message.
- Send invitations in the mail body
Invitations are normally sent as attachments to a mail. This switch changes the invitation to be sent in the text of the mail instead; this is necessary to send invitations and replies to Microsoft Outlook. But, when you do this, you no longer get descriptive text that mail programs can read; so, to people who have email programs that do not understand the invitations, the resulting messages look very odd. People that have email programs that do understand invitations will still be able to work with this.
Details: When mailing an iCal invitation this option makes the message body from the attachment data and sets the Content-Type header to 'text/calendar; method=something; charset="utf-8"'.
Auto-sending is also turned on so there is no human intervention required for composing.
Note
Encryption and self-signing are disabled.
- Exchange-compatible invitation naming
Microsoft Outlook, when used in combination with a Microsoft Exchange(tm) server, has a problem understanding standards-compliant groupware email. Enable this option to send groupware invitations in a way that Microsoft Exchange(tm) understands. The invitation will be sent as an attachment with name
ical.ics.Details: When mailing an iCal invitation this makes the message have the subject "(Declined|Tentative|Accepted|Delegated): subject". The invitation will be sent as an attachment with name
ical.ics.- Outlook-compatible attachment naming
Turn this option on to make Outlook(tm) understand attachment names containing non-English characters.