Unfortunately my company email account is hosted by MS-Office365 ( outlook.office365.com ) . I have this defined as a KMail "Receiving" IMAP account, and it works OK for normal mail - but I'm having problems with other message types, eg. Calendar notification messages . I can see no entries in the 'Calendar' IMAP account sub-folder except these error messages - here is an example: <quote> Subject: Retrieval using the IMAP4 protocol failed for the following message:4 From: To: "jason.vas.dias@REDACTED.com" <jason.vas.dias@REDACTED.com> Date: Unknown The server couldn't retrieve the following message: Subject: "REDACTED " From: "REDACTED" ("/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=0CFA1B03EE0F458BB01229EB4EF576B5-REDACTED") Sent date: 8/12/2014 12:00:59 PM The message hasn't been deleted. You might be able to view it using either Outlook or Outlook Web App. You can also contact the sender to find out what the message says. </quote> Is kmail meant to support MS-Exchange functionality ? I thought nowadays it was, which is why I'm using KMail instead of Evolution . If it is, it is evidently having problems . I'd prefer not to have to switch back to Evolution just because of this issue. Is there likely to be any fix forthcoming for this, or do I need to use Evolution / OWA to get MS-Exchange Calendar messages? Thanks for an otherwise problem-free mail client experience, a great improvement on previous versions. Regards, Jason
wow! Inspired by the extent of the interest in & progress on this issue to ammend it somewhat: Please support using the OpenChange client library in kmail / libkdepim to enable access to exchange calendar: http://www.openchange.org It looks like I can set up a cron-job to periodically download the calendar folder with the openchangeclient command and then write a script to add the messages to the local mbox queue . Couldn't support for doing this internally within kmail be added ?
I've been using kmail since @ 2002+ , (from emacs mail, before it could handle SSL / TLS ), but have now decided to switch back to emacs gnus , since although it does not handle Calendar messages either, it also supports imaps + starttls and is alot easier and nicer to use than kmail - particularly in rendering HTML with w3 and displaying embedded images automatically, while not downloading external references (without having to click to enable HTML display) , and in not busy-waiting, hogging CPU, and using alot of storage . Sorry, kmail has lost this user. Guess you can now file this bug under "dont care" .
This bug has never been confirmed for a KDE PIM version that is based on KDE Frameworks (5.x). Those versions differ significantly from the old 4.x series. Therefore, I plan to close it in around two or three months. In the meantime, it is set to WAITINGFORINFO to give reporters the oportunity to check if it is still valid. As soon as someone confirms it for a recent version (at least 5.1, ideally even more recent), I'll gladly reopen it. Please understand that we lack the manpower to triage bugs reported for versions almost two years beyond their end of life.
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.1 aka 15.12, preferably more recent), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.