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Invitation to events - no control panel visible to accept or decline event (Windows v 78.5.1)

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polarbergpotato
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Hi, I am using Thunderbird on Windows (version 78.5.1) and when I get an invitation to an event, there is no control panel visible, where I can accept, decline ... the event so that it is imported in my calendar (see screenshot).

On my Ubuntu OS where I have Thunderbird and lightning this works perfectly well. However on Windows I have Thunderbird Version 78.5.1, where lightning is no longer supported, since the calendar function is supported from default and there I can not find a way of getting the option to accept or decline an invitation.

I have a caldav calendar and a local one.

I could not find any information to this in the support forum or in the internet.

Thanks for any help, Freddy

Hi, I am using Thunderbird on Windows (version 78.5.1) and when I get an invitation to an event, there is no control panel visible, where I can accept, decline ... the event so that it is imported in my calendar (see screenshot). On my Ubuntu OS where I have Thunderbird and lightning this works perfectly well. However on Windows I have Thunderbird Version 78.5.1, where lightning is no longer supported, since the calendar function is supported from default and there I can not find a way of getting the option to accept or decline an invitation. I have a caldav calendar and a local one. I could not find any information to this in the support forum or in the internet. Thanks for any help, Freddy
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I sent an invitation from outlook.com to a mail account in TB that has a local calendar associated with the same mail account (78.5.1/W10). The Accept/Decline buttons appear (see picture). The buttons also appear if I send to an account that is not associated with any calendar. What kind of calendar do you have in TB, and where does the invitation come from?

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sfhowes
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Do your calendars have an associated email account defined in Properties?

https://superuser.com/questions/489189/accept-and-decline-button-missing-in-thunderbird-when-receiving-an-invitation

polarbergpotato
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Thanks for the response and the help! However all my calendars have an associated email address and I tried all the possible solutions from your link. Sadly none of them worked.

I even tried deleting all of my email accounts and calendars and then setting up one email account with only one calendar associated to it. But it didn't work.

Furthermore, I checked the config editor but I couldn't find anything strange there.

sfhowes
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I sent an invitation from outlook.com to a mail account in TB that has a local calendar associated with the same mail account (78.5.1/W10). The Accept/Decline buttons appear (see picture). The buttons also appear if I send to an account that is not associated with any calendar. What kind of calendar do you have in TB, and where does the invitation come from?

polarbergpotato
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Thanks for the effort. I also got invitations from outlook. I have a caldav calendar from my owncloud server.

I did reset Thunderbird and set up my email account and calendar again and now the buttons are back. Therefore I will just reconfigure everything manually and then it should work again.

pol2095
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Hello, I have the same problem, on Windows using Thunderbird 78.8.1, the control panel "invitation to an event" doesn't appear. on Ubuntu, using the same acount email, it work.

I tried on an other Windows computer with a fresh install of Thunderbird, same problem.

Thanks

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