Email Invitations - instructions?

[mgprot]

Discussion / Request for documentation

I just realised what the "Email invite sender address" system setting does (system/invite_from config parameter).
However, I can't find any documentation about Baikal's email integration at all.

As far as I can tell, the invite_from parameter in baikal.yaml allows users to add attendees to their calendar events, and when they are synced with Baikal, Baikal sends out invitations with the invite_from address as the sender. So far so good.

This, of course, assumes that Baikal's HTTP server is able to send emails - something that the administrator has to know about and configure etc.

Also, when people respond to those events, their calendars (can) send emails back to the invite_from address, but Baikal does not have a way to pick up those emails automatically, or does it?

I have found that if I click on the meeting.ics attachment in the returned emails, my calendar updates the attendee's status, and then syncs that with Baikal. Couldn't Baikal also do that automatically?

Sorry if this sounds fuzzy, but I just have no idea what to expect from this feature, but I'm pretty sure it's in the "why didn't I know about this earlier" category ;-)

Is there a clear description of how the email integration is supposed to work?
If not, can someone explain it?
PS: I tried following some of the links to svn.calendarserver.org in the code, but they all just redirect to apples latest, generic calendarserver.org site.

Thanks for Baikal by the way!

[englut]

Yeah some instructions would be good. I have the invite_from set, but I'm not seeing anything being sent. Is there something else that's required?

Okay, after a deeper dive. I got it working.
#859

Basically, you need to make sure your server has sendmail set up properly to send email.