ICal Server Invitations

I'm thinking of adding the iCal service to an OS-X server I presently have running.
I've set up the service and started prototyping and noticed that when an invitation is sent to someone outside the realm of users the server is aware of (like a Yahoo email account) the invitation can be viewed, added to the recipient's calendar app and, if accepted, sent back to the server. But the server is not changing the status of the invitation even after the recipient accepts and sends the accepted inviation.
I'm fairly certain if this is done using just iCal (and no server) that this works and is quite seamless. Is this something that just doesn't work when using iCal server or is something wrong with my setup? (I see the acceptance reply come back into the mail server logs with 250.)

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Ical server invitations to external email adresses are sent from "user"@localhost.localdomain

Hello,
I have quite a bad time getting the ical server in OSX 10.7 server to work correctly.
If I invite a co-worker who also has an account on the server, everything seems to be fine.
When I invite someone with an external email address, an email is sent to the given address, but the sender address is not my Adress but "MyName" @localhost.localdomain.
Besides the fact, that this looks quite strange for a corporate company to send emails like this, some receipients who use outlook cannot accept these invitations.
Unfortunately I cannot find any settings where I could change this behaviour.
The ical server is configured to connect to an external email service with its own email address.
Can anybody help?

Hi,
Is there only a single user encounter this issue?
If only a single user has this issue, try to move the mailbox to another database and check the result.
Thanks.
Niko Cheng
TechNet Community Support

ICal Server invitations not working through Google Apps

Running Lion Server 10.7.4 – I enable the option to use email addresses for invitations, key in the Gmail user and server settings (same info that works in Mail), and save. Afterward, invite tests that users send do not go to the designated email address. The logs have this repeated error:
2012-07-09 14:24:03-0500 [-] [caldav-0] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.scheduler.ScheduleResponseQueue#error] Error during POST for mailto:[email protected]: iMIP request failed
Italicized letters is a paraphrase of the actual email, any standard "[email protected]" type address gets the same failure.
I tried all the various authentication types: Plain, Login, CRAM-MD5, etc... tho it reverts itself to 'Login' after every save, I think the wizard tries the different authentication options and 'Login' is the one that works.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/17319571#17319571
instead of verifying email addresses associated with your appleID, try removing them.
I've read some of similar thread just now, and remove the associated email withing my apple ID
now, my friend can send invites to me ([email protected]) and i can reply within the ical and the event is created in the ical.
however, when she tried to send invites to my 2nd appleID (yahoo.com) i don't get anything.
I know this sounds very stupid. but at least i've got a temporary solutions.
hope this also works for you.
perhaps apple just us to use every service they've offer. there's too many ridiculous way to work in iCloud.
sometime i regret migrate to icloud. MobileMe was MUCH MUCH better in sync-ing

Ical server invitation reply to problem

Hi
When I send invitation from iCal it is sucesfully send to invited.
When he want to reply it show some mishmash.
mail body:
From: XXXXX Calendar <[email protected]>
Subject: Event invitation: vikendove mecheche
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:29:18 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Thaks for help
Tomas

That is correct. The Reply address is set to a special account that the calendar server monitors so the calendar server can automatically process the reply into the organizer's calendar.

ICal server invite problem after specific date.

If you create a new fresh account in Work Group Manager you will be able to book this user infinite in time. If this new user make a new event with repeting interval or accept an invitastion a few years in the future, the user will only be available to book for 3-5 years in the future.
My problem is that I have users that did this for years ago, and we are not able to invite them after mid august.It will not help to delete the repeting event.
Anyone have a solution?

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How do I put a newly invited event into my iCal server calendar?

Hi There,
We recently bought a mac-mini server which is running Snow Leopard Server for our office, and we have configured the server (using iCal Server 2) to store everybody's calendars.
Everyone is using iCal to access there calendars off the server and the basics are working ok (sharing etc).
An issue arises when someone attempts to create an event and invite another user in the office, the invitation is sent correctly but when the user receives the invitation and tries to add it to there calendar it is added to there local calendar, not the server calendar.
So my question is how do I make it so any newly added event is put into my server calendar, not one of my local calendars?
thanks for any help.

Bear with me because my system is Italian, but we'll work it out together: iCAL will provide you with myriads of calendars, even those of football team schedules in Oklahoma.
In my system, I go into iCAL, click on the menu at the top "Calendario" ("Calendar" obviously) and study the roll-down menu. I found "Trova iscrizioni" which might simply be something like "find calendars" "find entries". In any case, it is the item at the bottom of the roll-down "Calendar" menu.
Be prepared for a bit of scrolling, unless there is an index I missed.

ICal Server Email invitations HTTP post to SMTP server?

Hello all - We have an iCal server truing to post HTTP to an external SMTP server for email invitations. In the caldav error log:
2010-02-11 17:42:20-0800 [-] [caldav-8009] [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip#error] Could not do server-to-imip request : <twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip.ScheduleViaIMip object at 0x102cc8590> Connection was closed cleanly.
2010-02-11 17:42:27-0800 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip#error] Could not do server-to-imip request : <twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip.ScheduleViaIMip object at 0x102cba3d0> iMIP VFREEBUSY REQUESTs not supported.
In the smtp mail.log:
Feb 11 15:19:17 ml01vm postfix/smtpd[11981]: warning: non-SMTP command from unkn
own[X.X.X.X]: POST /inbox HTTP/1.0
Let me know if I can provide more information. I have reset the iCal email invitation /server settings numerous times with no effect.

Apparently the answer is Google Calendar.

ICal Server external Email Invitations Not working for names with umlauts!!

Hi,
I was testing external email invitations with iCal Server on Lion Server and encountered that if a Name that can Be resolved via iPhone or mac addressbook or even the sending iCal Account contains an umlaut something like this show up in iCal Server error log:
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [twext.web2.server#error] [Failure instance: Traceback: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 90: ordinal not in range(128)
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:388:errback
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:455:_startRunCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:542:_runCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1076:gotResult
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      --- <exception caught here> ---
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1018:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/python/failure.py:350:throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/resource.py:310:renderHTTP
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1018:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/python/failure.py:350:throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twext/web2/static.py:127:renderHTTP
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1018:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/python/failure.py:350:throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twext/web2/resource.py:109:renderHTTP
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1020:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py:334:http_POST
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py:958:outbound
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py:1199:generateEmail
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      ]
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [caldav-1] [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip#error] Could not do server-to-imip request : <twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip.ScheduleViaIMip object at 0x103c65ed0> 500 Internal Server Error
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [caldav-1] [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.scheduler.ScheduleResponseQueue#error] Error during PUT for mailto:someemailaddress@yourdomain: iMIP request failed
And No Email is send!
If changing the Umlaut ü to something like ue in the Sender or Receiver Name everything is alright!
Thank you Apple for obviously Not testing Lion Server for international use :-/
Maybe this help someone else who is using umlauts with iCal Server external Email invitations
Regards
Eldrik

Hello Daryn,
Thinks for commenting. I am very upset that Apple just said "No" when I asked for this to be fixed. There appears to be no way to submit this as an official bug that keeps ical from running.
Apple actually had me reinstall my whole server and the issue was still there and then they just said "Oh, well I will email someone about it.".
This is the first time Apple has stunk it up in my books. This is bad support for Server.
Brad

ICal server and external invitations via 3rd party mail server

Hi everyone,
OS 10.6.5 Server:
Services running
AFP
DNS
iCal
Open Directory
Push Notification
We are currently testing iCal server and have configured it to send out invites via our mail server (which is running on a different server) by creating the com.apple.calendarserver user on our mail server.
Email notifications are then configured under the Enable Email Invitations tab in the iCal service of Server Admin as follows:
IMAP
Email address: [email protected]
Incoming server: mail.mytest.com
Port: 143 (not using SSL)
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: secret
SMTP: mail.mytest.com
Port: 25 (not using SSL)
Server requires authentication
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: secret
My test OD users are able to send out invites both internally to other iCal users and externally via email.
So for example, I invite someone to a meeting and enter their gmail address ([email protected]), the invitation goes out correctly - when I log into gmail I see the invitation.
When responding to the invitation (clicking Yes), the mail server receives the response from gmail and the iCal server collects the message via IMAP.
However, the iCal server doesn't seem to parse the received email correctly as I get the following error in the iCal error logs:
[twistedcaldav.extensions#info] Cannot authenticate proxy user 'com.apple.calendarserver' without X-Authorize-As header
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.mail#error] Mail gateway failed to inject message <[email protected]> (Reason: 400 Bad Request)
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.mail#debug] Failed calendar body: BEGIN:VCALENDAR
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] VERSION:2.0
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] METHOD:REPLY
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] BEGIN:VEVENT
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] UID:43121576-1183-40C8-82D8-A052754AD1CE
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTSTART:20110406T080000Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTEND:20110406T090000Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] ATTENDEE;[email protected];CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=DECLINED;RO
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:[email protected]
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] CREATED:20110303T062518Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DESCRIPTION:
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTSTAMP:20110303T064335Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LAST-MODIFIED:20110303T064335Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LOCATION:
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] ORGANIZER;CN=com.apple.calendarserver+07b1c044-9d98-4cdc-afe3-48139218ee35
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] @mytest.com:urn:uuid:B72794FB-3242-48D7-AC22-A584D279B9F9
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] SEQUENCE:3
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] STATUS:CONFIRMED
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] SUMMARY:one more test
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] TRANSP:OPAQUE
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] END:VEVENT
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] END:VCALENDAR
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway]
I have set a rule on our mail server to bypass any spam filtering for all messages sent to the [email protected] address, but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
Does anyone else have this working ? Any ideas ?
Many thanks
Message was edited by: gen_bunty
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The issue is not "user authorization". The issue is that the 3rd-party service does not accept all incoming relay requests unless there is authentication with a registered account (which we have). This protects the 3rd-party service from becoming the relaying host for the universe's spoofed and anonymous spam. My deduction is that there is no mechanism in UTL_MAIL to designate not only the 3rd-party ip-address:port (by-passing the local sendmail server) but also providing the username:password for the account there for authentication.
Plan A: I have attempted to follow directions for client-side SMTP Authentication for Relaying on the sendmail.org site.
I have not been successful in completing a simple mailx interactive test, much less completing a UTL_MAIL configuration.
I am scouring the user universe for someone who has put all the pieces together successfully and can advise. . . .
Edited by: StevenInTallyFl on Mar 26, 2010 3:50 PM
to clarify that I cannot get from UTL_MAIL to 3rd-party IP directly

Customize ical server email invitation to events?

Is there a way to customize the email invitation that iCal server from snow leopard Server that sends to people outside of the organization when there is an event? maybe fonts? some custom text or company logo?
Thank you.

iCal Server sends invitations to internal users too if you remove the email addresses of your internal users under "Info" in Workgroup Manager.
So the Open Directory does not have an entry for the users with your internal domain, which makes iCal Server see the user as an external one.

ICal Server sends invitations via external email but no RSVP

I have set up a fresh install of Mavericks Server (10.9.3) running DNS and OD Services and now enabled iCal Server.
I setup invitation of external users via an external email address and invitations get sent and delivered via email just fine so I guess plus-addressing must be supported by the mailserver.
However the invitations do not show the RSVP requests and do not automatically get picked up by Calendar.app.
The server sits behind a NAT router and runs its own Split-DNS setup for the same local domain myserver.xyz.com that the router also redirects to the internal IP address of the server for external access to the iCal Server (so, FQDN is working for the server). The email account used for invitations is hosted on an external mailserver that runs on the same domain (mail.xyz.com).
Did I miss anything in my setup?
Thanks for any input.
Pete

Okay, got this figured out. Appears that the email server my client's company uses is terminating the connection when the Xserve tries to do anything. I setup a test Gmail account and used those settings instead and everything worked just fine.

ICal Server email invitations with external mail server

So I see lots of people have worked out the kinks to get iCal Server to send invites to external email accounts when using the Mail server on the same machine as the iCal Server, but who has it working when the mail server is somewhere else? Any help would be appreciated... I have setup it up like this:
Email Address: [email protected]
Incoming Mail Server: mail.mailserver.com
User Name: com.apple.calendarserver (I created this account on the mail server)
Password: Same as the one in my keychain for com.apple.calendarserver
Outgoing Mail Server: mail.xyz.com
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: Same as the one in my keychain for com.apple.calendarserver
When I send invites, this is what I get in the logs:
2010-05-24 20:59:31-0500 [-] [caldav_task] 2010-05-24 20:59:31-0500 [-] [calendarserver.sidecar.task#debug] Checking for tasks
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * OK mail.mailserver.com Zimbra IMAP4rev1 service ready
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP servergreeting
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0001 CAPABILITY
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=X-ZIMBRA ACL BINARY CATENATE CHILDREN CONDSTORE ENABLE ESEARCH ID IDLE LIST-EXTENDED LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS MULTIAPPEND NAMESPACE QRESYNC QUOTA RIGHTS=ektx SASL-IR SEARCHRES UIDPLUS UNSELECT WITHIN
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0002 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: +
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: AGNvbS5hcHBsZS5jYWxlbmRhcnNlcnZlcgB5M1h4bkZaejU3ZEZVVExW
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0002 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ACL BINARY CATENATE CHILDREN CONDSTORE ENABLE ESEARCH ID IDLE LIST-EXTENDED LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS MULTIAPPEND NAMESPACE QRESYNC QUOTA RIGHTS=ektx SASL-IR SEARCHRES UIDPLUS UNSELECT WITHIN] AUTHENTICATE completed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP logged in [unauth]
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0003 SELECT Inbox
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * 0 EXISTS
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * 0 RECENT
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1] UIDs are valid for this mailbox
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * OK [UIDNEXT 258] next expected UID is 258
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * FLAGS (\Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged \Seen $Forwarded $MDNSent Forwarded $Junk $NotJunk Junk JunkRecorded NonJunk NotJunk)
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged \Seen $Forwarded $MDNSent Forwarded \*)] junk-related flags are not permanent
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 12] modseq tracked on this mailbox
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0003 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP Inbox selected [unauth]
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] Unhandled unsolicited response: ['OK', ['HIGHESTMODSEQ', '12'], 'modseq', 'tracked', 'on', 'this', 'mailbox']
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0004 UID FETCH 1:* (UID)
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0004 OK UID FETCH completed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP got uids [unauth]
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP Inbox has 0 messages
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0005 CLOSE
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0005 OK CLOSE completed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP in cbClosed [unauth]
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] Mailbox closed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0006 LOGOUT
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * BYE mail.mailserver.com IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0006 OK LOGOUT completed
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadFactory#debug] IMAP factory connection lost
2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-05-24 20:59:39-0500 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadFactory#debug] Scheduling next IMAP4 poll
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Okay, got this figured out. Appears that the email server my client's company uses is terminating the connection when the Xserve tries to do anything. I setup a test Gmail account and used those settings instead and everything worked just fine.

ICal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working

iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
Set the iCal server email to access the same email using the following settings:
IMAP
SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
Login
User & Pwd
To test the settings:
send out a test email from Apple Mail to a non-server email address that you can access to check it has been received;
send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
this tells you that the GMail account is setup correctly and working
Testing iCal:
I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
Anatole
The Error and Access logfile in the Server app under iCal server are very useful in determining any errors. I got lots of imip errors when I didn't quite have the settings right. The port is critical and it won't tell you this is the problem if it fails.

iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
Set the iCal server email to access the same email using the following settings:
IMAP
SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
Login
User & Pwd
To test the settings:
send out a test email from Apple Mail to a non-server email address that you can access to check it has been received;
send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
this tells you that the GMail account is setup correctly and working
Testing iCal:
I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
Anatole
The Error and Access logfile in the Server app under iCal server are very useful in determining any errors. I got lots of imip errors when I didn't quite have the settings right. The port is critical and it won't tell you this is the problem if it fails.

3party calendar apps and invitations with iCal Server - Mac/PC enviro

We are a mixed OS company with macs and PCs. The macs are currently using iCal client software which is working great. However, our PC users are using Thunderbird-Lightning extension. In iCal or the web GUI, users get an invitation notification to accept or deny. Currently, with our thunderbird-lightning clients when they receive the meetings, it is automatically populated in their calendars without the option to accept or deny. Is there a way to fix this? Also when thunderbird-lightning clients try to email members to a meeting it will try to send to the UID and not the users email address, even it is defined in osx workgroup mng. Lastly we would like to add email notifications for all meetings, if possible.
What other windows calendar clients seem to work best with iCal Server? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
10.6.1 SL server, ical server.
10.5 and 10.6 mac users
Win XP with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 + Lightning 0.9 users

Hi!
Have you had a look at eMClient? works with IMAP and CalDAV on Widows, even Windows 7, and is free.
/Hasse

Get HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict when trying to accept invite into ical server on Lion

Greetings,
We have setup the iCal server on our lion servers and we just got an invite from a client and this is the error we get when trying to accept the invite. {HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict} I think the invite came from an Outlook system but it is an .ics file. Is there a way to solve this issue?
Thanks,
Kevin

Hi,
can you login to InfoView?
I guess you have to manual re-deploy your WebApps using wdeploy. Please make note of your changes to the web.xml prior for re- deploying the WebApps.
Regards
-Seb.

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