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I can't get invitation acceptance to reliably appear in Thunderbird and Google

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Enterfrize
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Help set my expectations. I'm running Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Windows 10 64 bit. I have the calendar synchronized with my Google calendars. I use aliases for my email addresses, and the responses all go to the same inbox - not sure if that's important.

What I want to do is:

1. Send the invitation out from Thunderbird. 2. Synchronize the Thunderbird & Google calendars. 3. See the confirmed meeting attendees in Thunderbird AND Google calendars.

I am making the invitation from Thunderbird, and the receiving calendar is the Google calendar which is synchronized in Thunderbird and Google. I send out the invite from Thunderbird, a bunch come back as confirmed through email no problem. However, only a portion get recorded as being accepted in Thunderbird and Google - and not necessarily the same amount between them. I can't see an obvious patter of those that work and those that don't.

Is this supposed to work as I've described?

Help set my expectations. I'm running Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Windows 10 64 bit. I have the calendar synchronized with my Google calendars. I use aliases for my email addresses, and the responses all go to the same inbox - not sure if that's important. What I want to do is: 1. Send the invitation out from Thunderbird. 2. Synchronize the Thunderbird & Google calendars. 3. See the confirmed meeting attendees in Thunderbird AND Google calendars. I am making the invitation from Thunderbird, and the receiving calendar is the Google calendar which is synchronized in Thunderbird and Google. I send out the invite from Thunderbird, a bunch come back as confirmed through email no problem. However, only a portion get recorded as being accepted in Thunderbird and Google - and not necessarily the same amount between them. I can't see an obvious patter of those that work and those that don't. Is this supposed to work as I've described?

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Matt
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Each calendar has an associated email address. This is the address that will be used to send invitations for that calendar. So identities should not be relevant. All invites will go out from the same path.

Return however could be a mess. Google has server side settings for automatically accepting invitations etc and generally processing most calendar attachments automatically. IF the return email is coming to the Gmail address that is. I really do not know how Google will respond to acceptances send to lostpuppies@mydomain.com. that are routed as identities into the gmail inbox. My gut feeling is it will do nothing with them as they are not invitations to the identity that is the calendar. They would have to be manually actioned upon arrival in Thunderbird. The action button in Thunderbird would again depend on the associated address that the "identity" used having a calendar to add the acceptance to.

Then we get to synchronization. Thunderbird/Lightning only does this about every 30 minutes so I would expect the two to differ if there is activity in the past 30 minutes.

I hope some added discussion about how will help you in understanding what is happening.

Enterfrize
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When you say action button, what are you referring to?

At the top of the received invitations, I sometimes see "This message contains a reply to an invitation - (UPDATE BUTTON)".

If I hit the UPDATE button, does that populate the answer in my local calendar (which would be a good thing)? Do you know what it actually does? When I press it, does it resend an invitation (which I don't want to happen!).