cannot accept meeting invite to Google calendar

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Specfic steps taken to reproduce issue:
1. Open Evolution
2. Set up a Google calendar in Evolution (Under calendar, select "new calendar" type of "Google" and enter credentials)
3. Receive a meeting invitation in Evolution.
4. In the invitation, select your Google calendar and hit "Accept"
5. Receive the error "Unable to send item to calendar '<Google calendar name>'. Authentication failed."

Expected behavior: To accept the meeting request and publish the event to the Google calendar

Actual behavior: Rejected due to "failed authentication."

I can create a Google calendar event from Evolution outside the context of accepting a meeting invite, so the authentication should work for accepting an invite as well.

I can just confirm this.

Even for exchange i cannot accept invites. Is there a evolution plugin missing in the repro?

Marking confirmed as I entered the requested additional information and have confirmation from erik on this bug.

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

I can also confirm.

I can somewhat confirm this.

All mails I have with invites attached as .ics (iCal) files fail (with "authentication failed") if added to a Google Calendar. If adding the same invites to a local calendar, they work ok but cannot subsequently be moved to a Google Calendar (also results in "authentication failed")

I have some mails with inline (embedded) iCal data that do work, but curiously also some that fail exactly like the invites that are attached. I do not know if attached vs. inline has anything to do with the problem - I'm just stating my observations.

Please contact me directly and I can forward the mails to developers. Also, please let me know how I can provide debug logs from Evolution as I would really like to help fix this.

Just wanted to add that my results are the same regardless of if the Google Calendar is added using "Google Calendar" mode when creating the calendar in Evolution or if i use CalDAV.

The problem seems to be related to the content of the .ics files.

Would be useful if somebody getting the issue would send it to the software writters there

I have created an upstream bug and referenced this:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601531

linking the report, thanks for sent it upstream.

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588858.

Seems Evolution team refuses to fix the bug saying that it is desired behaviour:

"This is really caused by the way of Evolution talking to Google calendar, but not Evolution's fault. They are preventing adding a
meeting through CalDAV when you are not the organizer (here 'you' means an email associated with Google account on their site)."

If this is not their fault, I wonder how come it works with google-calendar-provider in Thunderbird?

I get the same response.
And it doesn't work in Thunderbird with Lightning and the Calendar Provider either....

Well.. if this is by design, I think there must be a way around it.
On the Google Caldav Issues list (http://code.google.com/p/google-caldav-issues), where this 'feature' is fiercely discussed up from januari, several work arounds, or better: correct configurations, are discussed.
One of them is the option to add an additional emailaddress to your google account. Whenever that emailaddress is used in the calendar invites, adding the event should be possible. I haven't been able to see it working, though.
Can anyone confirm what the correct steps would be to have Evolution work with Google calendar??

Thanks!

According to <http://code.google.com/p/google-caldav-issues/issues/detail?id=38>, they've fixed it on Google Calendar but not yet on Google Apps Calendar. Also, the bug on gnome's bugzilla is marked as NOT GNOME, so I guess this one should be marked Invalid?

bug from 2009. Version not more supported.
change status to invalid.