Calendar server & email invitations!

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Calendar server & email invitations!

My Calendar server is up and working fine *untill one tries to invite someone who isn't part of out server directory, aka an email invitee.*

The CalDAV server sends the invite fine (the person receives an pretty HTML email with a .ics attached)
The person can Accepted or Decline and a reply email is sent.
The Mail server receives that email and puts it in "Calendar Server Mail"

BUT the person who made the event doesn't get the little green tick or red cross. so they have no way of telling if one has Accepted or Decline the event.

is any one eles having this problem?

MacBook Pro 5,3, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 18, 2010 5:52 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 19, 2010 2:20 PM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

forgot to add im running OS X server 10.6.4
and clients are running OSX 10.6.4 also.

has any one else experience this problem or is it just me?

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Answer 2

Aug 19, 2010 11:32 PM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

I've been playing around with the server a few days now trying to work out the kinks for my company, so I have a slight idea of how it works.

Sounds to me like the ical server isn't getting the response email, but the email server is. You may check your settings and make sure the imap/pop part of the settings in Server Admin has the correct values. login/pass, etc.

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Answer 3

Aug 20, 2010 3:32 AM in response to Tim Bloom1

Hi thanks for the reply!

The calendar server has no problem of sending emails? the username & password are the default.
username: com.apple.calendarserver
password: unknown

Calendar Settings:
https://files.me.com/jonohayes/sr6057

do you experience the same problem as me on your server?

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Answer 4

Aug 20, 2010 7:34 AM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

Not exactly the same issue on mine, but mine didn't have any of the "default" mail account information filled in at all, probably because it was an upgrade from 10.5 server. I had to use keychain access to recover the password. You might look in there, in the system keychain, to verify you have the correct password in there. I had used http://www.coresolutiongroup.com/wordpress/?p=27 to point me in the right direction.

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Answer 5

Aug 20, 2010 7:40 AM in response to Tim Bloom1

I had to edit postfix's main.conf file also, I put a little write up on my site explaining the steps. I did it because my invitation replies were getting automatically rejected from the server. It looks like yours are going through to the server you said so I doubt that's your issue. http://www.osxadmins.com/?p=139

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Answer 6

Aug 20, 2010 7:45 AM in response to Tim Bloom1

Maybe you could post some of the text from the iCal server error log from Server Admin.

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Answer 7

Aug 20, 2010 12:40 PM in response to Tim Bloom1

nice website i might just bookmark it and add to my rss reader!
ive checked the passwords, and here are some ical error logs.......

2010-08-21 07:38:59+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:38:59+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadFactory#debug] Scheduling next IMAP4 poll
2010-08-21 07:39:17+1200 [-] [caldav_task] 2010-08-21 07:39:17+1200 [-] [calendarserver.sidecar.task#debug] Checking for tasks
2010-08-21 07:39:17+1200 [-] [notifications] 2010-08-21 07:39:17+1200 [-] [twistedcaldav.notify.XMPPNotificationFactory#debug] SEND: <presence/>
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * OK Dovecot ready.
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP servergreeting
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0001 CAPABILITY
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ ID IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 QUOTA AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=CRAM-MD5
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0001 OK Capability completed.
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0002 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: + PDgwODY1NTU4MTE5MjU3NTUuMTI4MjMzMzE2OUB3ZWJzZXJ2ZXIubnpjbWwuY28ubno+
2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:29+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: Y29tLmFwcGxlLmNhbGVuZGFyc2VydmVyIGU1NmQxMzNiZDQxMzdhNzA0NDk2OWVjY2I3M2UzNGVj
2010-08-21 07:39:31+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:31+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0002 NO Authentication failed.
2010-08-21 07:39:31+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:31+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] IMAP authenticate failed for com.apple.calendarserver, trying login
2010-08-21 07:39:31+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:31+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] SENDING: 0003 LOGIN "com.apple.calendarserver" "GtOpFZcVIX1zdlvo"
2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#debug] RECEIVED: 0003 NO Unsupported authentication mechanism.
2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadProtocol#error] IMAP login failed for com.apple.calendarserver
2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadFactory#debug] IMAP factory connection lost
2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [-] [mailgateway] 2010-08-21 07:39:36+1200 [IMAP4DownloadProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadFactory#debug] Scheduling next IMAP4 poll

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Answer 8

Aug 20, 2010 12:45 PM in response to Tim Bloom1

mail IMAP logs

Aug 21 07:39:36 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:39:36 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts): user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:40:13 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:40:13 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts): user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:40:50 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:40:50 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts): user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:41:27 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:41:27 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts): user=<com.apple.calendarserver>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.2, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:41:35 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.39, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:41:35 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.39, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:41:35 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.39, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS
Aug 21 07:41:35 webserver dovecot[190]: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.39, lip=192.168.10.2, TLS

but the calendar server can send mail fine!

Message was edited by: jonohayes

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Answer 9

Aug 27, 2010 3:24 AM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

Does any one else have the same problem? Because I have two servers, both with the same problem. & I can't remembering it ever working.

If yours does work can you please post so I can stop going insane guessing!

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Answer 10

Aug 30, 2010 3:20 PM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

UPDATE! - thanks http://www.dreness.com/ for you help

i have made a new user on the server (username: calendarserver) and now the iCal Server can login to mail (send and receive), i can see the iCal Server delete the response emails. but it still doesn't update the event info?

any more ideas?

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Answer 11

Aug 30, 2010 3:48 PM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

You're now at the exact same point I've been stuck at for a couple weeks. I see emails go through and it checks and deletes new mails in its inbox. But the accept/decline response never shows up in the calendar. I also never seem to find errors in the log.

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Answer 12

Aug 30, 2010 3:56 PM in response to Tim Bloom1

YAY im not alone!

I'm lost for ideas as well, it must be a bug in the Calendar Server, i cant remember if it has ever worked for me in Snow Leopard.

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Answer 13

Sep 7, 2010 1:30 PM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

Same issues here. I have been dealing with it for over a year and have done a clean install with no avail. I have tried using gmail (google apps) as a mail relay but nothing seems to help. Please post a fix if you guys figure it out and I will do the same because I think I may have to hire someone to get it to work.

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Answer 14

Tim Harris

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Sep 18, 2010 12:55 AM in response to -{ jonohayes }-

I'm not sure if this is good news for you or not - but I have it working - all be it on a non production server (e.g. it could fail later when real users use it) .

Set loggin to debug and watch for errors in error.log

Tim

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Answer 15

kmcital

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Sep 30, 2010 4:54 PM in response to Tim Harris

I have been through all the posts in this Forum and have gotten to the point where all is working with email invitations, except one scenario that has two issues. 1) invitation does not automatically show up in iCal, and 2) invitation replies do not get processed.

Scenario:
-external originator of a meeting invite
-iCal server user as an invitee
-user has no local iCal calendars, default calendar (top in list) is an ical server calendar
-Mail.app and iCal preferences set to automatically add invitations to iCal

Behavior seen is:
-Email invite received by user in Inbox, not added to iCal
-User has to either open .ics attachment or drag-drop attachment into iCal
-iCal notification is simply an alert with only OK response as an option
-When the user opens the event details, it displays the Accept-Maybe-Reject replies to the invitation
-User's invitation reply is not sent to the meeting organizer and does not reflect in the user's iCal event

Server log shows these messages:

2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.directory.principal#debug] No principal for calendar user address: u'MAILTO:organizer@external.com'
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.memcacher.Memcacher#debug] Getting Cache Token for 'MAILTO:organizer@external.com'
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.memcachepool.MemCachePool#debug] Busied client: <twistedcaldav.memcachepool.PooledMemCacheProtocol instance at 0x1023a02d8>
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.memcachepool.MemCachePool#debug] Clients #free: 0, #busy: 1, #pending: 0, #queued: 0
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.memcachepool.MemCachePool#debug] Freed client: <twistedcaldav.memcachepool.PooledMemCacheProtocol instance at 0x1023a02d8>
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.memcachepool.MemCachePool#debug] Clients #free: 1, #busy: 0, #pending: 0, #queued: 0
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.directory.principal#debug] No principal for calendar user address: u'MAILTO:invitee@domain.com'
2010-09-30 14:19:07-0700 [-] [caldav-8009] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.method.put_common#debug] Rollback: backing up destination /Library/CalendarServer/Documents/calendars/ _uids_/6C/D0/6CD08DB1-09A0-4802-9AFF-AAAA7262C4AA/calendar/{C94C3DDC-7B49-4182-AEFB-B9 69CA99C410}.ics to /Library/CalendarServer/Documents/calendars/ _uids_/6C/D0/6CD08DB1-09A0-4802-9AFF-AAAA7262C4AA/calendar/.{C94C3DDC-7B49-4182-AEFB-B 969CA99C410}.ics.rollback

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I see some posts in the forum that people have this working, and I'm almost there except for this one scenario. Meeting invites originating from an iCal Server user seem to be working fine, replies from external invitees are received and updated in the meeting info.

What am I missing?

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