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Old March 7th, 2008, 11:49 AM
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Cfmail, iCalendar, Lotus Notes 7.0.2
Hey all. I think my title pretty much describes my problem.

I'm trying to send meeting invites with cfmail using the iCalendar format. I got the format by exporting a meeting from Lotus Notes so I was sure it would have everything Notes needed to parse it. But when I send it, I'm getting this dialog box:

"The received iCalendar stream could not be correctly parsed into a Meeting Notice"

Here's what I've tried so far:

1.) Sending a file with the iCal message in it as a mime attachment ("text/calendar").

3.) Using cfmailparam to attach the ics file as above.

2.) Creating a ColdFusion string and setting the mime type to "text/calendar".


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<!--- This is the iCalendar format. Each line must be explicitly terminated with a carriage return and a line feed, per RFC 4324 --->
<cfset cal = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "VERSION:2.0" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "PRODID:-//Lotus Development Corporation//NONSGML Notes 7.0//EN" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "METHOD:PUBLISH" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "BEGIN:VTIMEZONE" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "BEGIN:VEVENT" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "TZID:Central" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "BEGIN:STANDARD" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "DTSTART:19501105T020000" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "TZOFFSETFROM:-0500" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "TZOFFSETTO:-0600" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "END:STANDARD" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "BEGIN:DAYLIGHT"&
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "DTSTART:19500312T020000" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "TZOFFSETFROM:-0600" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "TZOFFSETTO:-0500" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "END:DAYLIGHT" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "END:VTIMEZONE"  &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "BEGIN:VEVENT" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "DTSTART;TZID=#chr(34)#Central#chr(34)#:20080307T090000"&
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "DTEND;TZID=#chr(34)#Central#chr(34)#:20080307T100000" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "TRANSP:OPAQUE" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "RDATE;VALUE=PERIOD:20080307T150000Z/20080307T160000Z" &
               " ,20080404T140000Z/20080404T150000Z,20080502T140000Z/20080502T150000Z" &
               " ,20080606T140000Z/20080606T150000Z,20080704T140000Z/20080704T150000Z" &
               " ,20080801T140000Z/20080801T150000Z,20080905T140000Z/20080905T150000Z" &
               " ,20081003T140000Z/20081003T150000Z,20081107T150000Z/20081107T160000Z" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "DTSTAMP:20080111T171955Z" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "CLASS:PUBLIC" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "DESCRIPTION:" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "SUMMARY:Monthly ColdFusion Environment Discussion" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "UID:482DF7F9A991942C862573CD005EA8C8-Lotus_Notes_Generated" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-PARITAL-REPEAT:TRUE" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-UPDATE-SEQ:1" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-UPDATE-WISL:$S:1;$L:1;$B:1;$R:1;$E:1;$W:1;$O:1;$M:1" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-START;TZID=#chr(34)#Central#chr(34)#:20080307T090000" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-END;TZID=#chr(34)#Central#chr(34)#:20080307T100000" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-NOTESVERSION:2" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-NOTICETYPE:A" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-APPTTYPE:3" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "X-LOTUS-CHILD_UID:29B38BBE3A8E365F862573E20052B0EE" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "END:VEVENT" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#" &
               "END:VCALENDAR" &
               "#chr(13)##chr(10)#">
<!--- try sending string inline --->
<cfmail to="recipient@example.com"
        from="Brian"
        replyTo="to@example.com"
        subject="cal test"
        type="text/calendar">#cal#</cfmail>

<!--- Send as cfmailparam attachment --->
<cfmail to="recipient@example.com" 
        from="Brian" 
        subject="attach Vcal Test"
        type="text/calendar"><cfmailparam type="text/calendar" file="/temp/ical.ics"></cfmail>

<!--- Send as mime attachment --->
<cfmail to="recipient@example.com" 
        from="Brian" 
        subject="attach Vcal Test"
        type="text/calendar"
      mimeattach="/dynamic/coldfusion/brian_test/ical.ics"></cfmail>


The inline text doesn't even get to my inbox. The attachments get there but can't be parsed. Gmail seems to parse it fine. Notes just seems to be very particular. Does anyone have any experience with this? Ideas? Suggestions?

Thanks!
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Old March 7th, 2008, 12:21 PM
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I haven't dealt with any of these systems so I can't offer anything concrete. My advice would be to take the generated text and try sending it manually as an attachment to see if Notes can handle it. Mess with it until it works. Then ensure that what CF is generating matches that.
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I haven't dealt with any of these systems so I can't offer anything concrete. My advice would be to take the generated text and try sending it manually as an attachment to see if Notes can handle it. Mess with it until it works. Then ensure that what CF is generating matches that.


The problem is that iCalendar is very picky about its formatting. So I wanted to use ColdFusion (or Java, or whatever) to explicitly put the carriage returns and line feeds in there.

Like I said, Gmail parses it fine. And when I open the attachment, it asks if I want to import it to my calendar. So I don't know why it won't just parse it when it receives it.

I talked to IBM tech support and they didn't seem to know much.

Surely someone has tried to automate meetings and events. I will be surprised if I'm the first one.
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I've done it with Exchange (in CF8 its one line of code). But honestly I've never even met anyone personally who used Lotus Notes at all, much less with CF. Hopefully someone may surprise us though!
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