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  ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2014-03-01 11:28 -0500
    Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-03-01 10:28 -0800
      Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-02 11:02 -0500
      Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2014-03-02 15:01 -0500
        Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2014-03-02 20:19 +0000
          Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2014-03-02 22:58 -0500
            Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2014-03-03 21:20 +0000
              Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2014-03-03 17:00 -0500
                Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-03 23:20 +0000
                  Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2014-03-04 19:56 -0500
                    Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-05 03:04 +0000
        Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-03-02 15:31 -0800
      Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2014-03-02 20:19 +0000
    Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... mcarels@xs4all.nl (Maarten Carels) - 2014-03-03 10:55 +0100
      Re: ICS added to Calendar without confirmation... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2014-03-03 16:50 -0500

#21253 — ICS added to Calendar without confirmation...

I received an email that had an ICS attachment.  The odd thing is that 
I never clicked on that ICS attachment, and yet the event got 
automatically added to my calendar without prompting me for 
confirmation.  Is there a way I can prevent that?

Using Apple Mail and Calendar on Mac OS X (Mavericks)

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#21256

In article <let1qu$sat$1@dont-email.me>,
 TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:

> I received an email that had an ICS attachment.  The odd thing is that 
> I never clicked on that ICS attachment, and yet the event got 
> automatically added to my calendar without prompting me for 
> confirmation.  Is there a way I can prevent that?
> 
> Using Apple Mail and Calendar on Mac OS X (Mavericks)

Don't use Apple's Mail and ICS attachments won't get added to your 
calendar.

I don't use Apple's Calendar program, preferring the Google Calendar 
because it accessible on my Android phone, my laptop, and my desktop.

Once you buy into the Apple walled garden, you take what they give you 
the way the give it to you.

-- 
DeeDee, don't press that button!  DeeDee!  NO!  Dee...
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#21264

On 2014.03.01, 13:28 , Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article <let1qu$sat$1@dont-email.me>,
>   TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
>
>> I received an email that had an ICS attachment.  The odd thing is that
>> I never clicked on that ICS attachment, and yet the event got
>> automatically added to my calendar without prompting me for
>> confirmation.  Is there a way I can prevent that?
>>
>> Using Apple Mail and Calendar on Mac OS X (Mavericks)
>
> Don't use Apple's Mail and ICS attachments won't get added to your
> calendar.
>
> I don't use Apple's Calendar program, preferring the Google Calendar
> because it accessible on my Android phone, my laptop, and my desktop.
>
> Once you buy into the Apple walled garden, you take what they give you
> the way the give it to you.

Indeed.

-- 
   Privacy has become an essential personal chore that most
   people are not trained to perform.
                  - Jaron Lanier, Scientific American, 2013.11.

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#21276

On 2014-03-01 18:28:37 +0000, Michael Vilain said:

> Don't use Apple's Mail and ICS attachments won't get added to your
> calendar.
> 
> I don't use Apple's Calendar program, preferring the Google Calendar
> because it accessible on my Android phone, my laptop, and my desktop.
> 
> Once you buy into the Apple walled garden, you take what they give you
> the way the give it to you.

Okay, but when you do get an email with an ICS attachment in whatever 
email program you use, how do you move this ICS attachment to Goggle 
Calendar to create an event?

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#21278

TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:

> On 2014-03-01 18:28:37 +0000, Michael Vilain said:
> 
> > Don't use Apple's Mail and ICS attachments won't get added to your
> > calendar.
> > 
> > I don't use Apple's Calendar program, preferring the Google Calendar
> > because it accessible on my Android phone, my laptop, and my desktop.
> > 
> > Once you buy into the Apple walled garden, you take what they give you
> > the way the give it to you.
> 
> Okay, but when you do get an email with an ICS attachment in whatever
> email program you use, how do you move this ICS attachment to Goggle 
> Calendar to create an event?

Sync the Google calendar with the Apple one ?

-- 
Howard

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#21295

On 2014-03-02 20:19:45 +0000, Howard said:

> TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
> 
>> Okay, but when you do get an email with an ICS attachment in whatever
>> email program you use, how do you move this ICS attachment to Goggle
>> Calendar to create an event?
> 
> Sync the Google calendar with the Apple one ?

That's the setup I have now.  Apple Mail notifies Apple Calendar which 
is synced to Google Calendar.

    Apple Mail --> Apple Calendar --> Google Calendar

Ultimately, it is only Google Calendar I'm interested in.  The only 
reason I have Apple Calendar in the middle is so that when I click on 
an ICS attachment in Apple Mail, Mavericks adds that event to Apple 
Calendar which then updates Google Calendar.

If there was a way I could eliminate Apple Calendar, I would.

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#21306

TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:

> If there was a way I could eliminate Apple Calendar, I would.

True ... but you can just leave the apple calendar unvisited and
ignored.... until there's a solution down the line.

-- 
Howard

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#21308

On 2014-03-03 21:20:42 +0000, Howard said:

> TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
> 
>> If there was a way I could eliminate Apple Calendar, I would.
> 
> True ... but you can just leave the apple calendar unvisited and
> ignored.... until there's a solution down the line.

I would like to ignore Apple Calendar, but unfortunately, as I 
explained in my original post, Apple Mail, upon receiving a message 
with an ICS attachment, has automatically created an event in Apple 
Calendar without consulting me first (I did not click or double-click 
on that attachment).

There are two problems with this:

 - A user could potentially send me a malicious ICS attachment that 
could create thousands of events in Apple Calendar (and hence Google 
Calendar).
 - I'm unable to delete the event because, when I try, Apple Mail 
threatens to notify the original sender (a friend of mine) that I have 
declined their request.

There's gotta be a way to prevent Apple Mail and Apple Calendar from 
behaving like this.

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#21312

In message <lf2u2e$v3e$1@dont-email.me> 
  TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
> On 2014-03-03 21:20:42 +0000, Howard said:

>> TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
>> 
>>> If there was a way I could eliminate Apple Calendar, I would.
>> 
>> True ... but you can just leave the apple calendar unvisited and
>> ignored.... until there's a solution down the line.

> I would like to ignore Apple Calendar, but unfortunately, as I 
> explained in my original post, Apple Mail, upon receiving a message 
> with an ICS attachment, has automatically created an event in Apple 
> Calendar without consulting me first (I did not click or double-click 
> on that attachment).

Tell it not to do that.

>  - A user could potentially send me a malicious ICS attachment that 
> could create thousands of events in Apple Calendar (and hence Google 
> Calendar).

In my experience, it is google calendar that is the problem and auto
adds events willy-nilly from G+

>  - I'm unable to delete the event because, when I try, Apple Mail 
> threatens to notify the original sender (a friend of mine) that I have 
> declined their request.

> There's gotta be a way to prevent Apple Mail and Apple Calendar from 
> behaving like this.

Turn off the setting (which you turned on at some point) to automatically
add events to the calendar in Mail.app. The default is to not add them.


-- 
"@Drhorrible is not following you" Whew! that's a relief, I was sure
some super villain was following me. Hope it's not Dick Cheney.

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#21337

On 2014-03-03 23:20:26 +0000, Lewis said:

> Tell it not to do that.

How?  Mail > Preferences - General > "Add invitations to Calendar" is 
set to "Never".


> In my experience, it is google calendar that is the problem and auto
> adds events willy-nilly from G+

That's why I have not joined G+.


> Turn off the setting (which you turned on at some point) to automatically
> add events to the calendar in Mail.app. The default is to not add them.

Please tell me how.

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#21338

In message <lf5soh$dr3$1@dont-email.me> 
  TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
> On 2014-03-03 23:20:26 +0000, Lewis said:

>> Tell it not to do that.

> How?  Mail > Preferences - General > "Add invitations to Calendar" is 
> set to "Never".

Then it is not mail doing it. Do you use gmail?

Short of that, turn it on and quit mail, then turn it off. Maybe the setting
got borked.

-- 
If fashion is your trade then when you're naked I guess you must be
unemployed.

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#21289

In article <lf02n9$c8g$1@dont-email.me>,
 TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:

> On 2014-03-01 18:28:37 +0000, Michael Vilain said:
> 
> > Don't use Apple's Mail and ICS attachments won't get added to your
> > calendar.
> > 
> > I don't use Apple's Calendar program, preferring the Google Calendar
> > because it accessible on my Android phone, my laptop, and my desktop.
> > 
> > Once you buy into the Apple walled garden, you take what they give you
> > the way the give it to you.
> 
> Okay, but when you do get an email with an ICS attachment in whatever 
> email program you use, how do you move this ICS attachment to Goggle 
> Calendar to create an event?

You don't.  Or at least I don't.  I have been able to drag ICS 
attachments to my copy of BusyCal, but it's $50 and the current version 
sucks.  There's also Fantastical which can sync to Google Calendar.  I 
don't know if it does drag/drop of ics files.

If you have others sending you ics files, you're best bet is to live 
with this new behavior and move on.

-- 
DeeDee, don't press that button!  DeeDee!  NO!  Dee...
[I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically ignored]

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#21277

Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <let1qu$sat$1@dont-email.me>,
>  TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
> 
> > I received an email that had an ICS attachment.  The odd thing is that
> > I never clicked on that ICS attachment, and yet the event got 
> > automatically added to my calendar without prompting me for 
> > confirmation.  Is there a way I can prevent that?
> > 
> > Using Apple Mail and Calendar on Mac OS X (Mavericks)
> 
> Don't use Apple's Mail and ICS attachments won't get added to your 
> calendar.
> 
> I don't use Apple's Calendar program, preferring the Google Calendar 
> because it accessible on my Android phone, my laptop, and my desktop.
> 
> Once you buy into the Apple walled garden, you take what they give you
> the way the give it to you.

As opposed to the Google whirlpool ....

-- 
Howard

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#21301

TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:

> I received an email that had an ICS attachment.  The odd thing is that
> I never clicked on that ICS attachment, and yet the event got 
> automatically added to my calendar without prompting me for 
> confirmation.  Is there a way I can prevent that?
> 
> Using Apple Mail and Calendar on Mac OS X (Mavericks)
In the Mail preferences, the General pane:
Add invitations to Calendar: Never/Automatically

Don't know what default is, mine is set to Never...

--maarten

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#21307

On 2014-03-03 09:55:21 +0000, Maarten Carels said:

> In the Mail preferences, the General pane:
> Add invitations to Calendar: Never/Automatically
> 
> Don't know what default is, mine is set to Never...

Mine is also set to Never.

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