Calendar can't send messages

[bxojr]

Not sure if this is a bug or something I'm doing wrong.

If I create a calendar event on the Fascinate and put an e-mail address in the "Participants" field, the phone asks if I want to send messages to participants. But then it fails with the message "No applications can perform this action."

If I go into an existing calendar event and select "Send via" from the menu, I get a prompt to turn Bluetooth on.

So basically, I can't find any way to send an event notification by e-mail from the phone. I have the Gmail app configured and working correctly, so shouldn't the phone know that app is available to send messages?

 

[nataliem105]

I'm having the same issue and can't figure out any solution either. Let me know if anyone figures this out!

 

[oldAGE]

I was fighting through this yesterday. Is your calendar set up to use your gmail account as a sync'd account? Secondly, what is the purpose of sending an email? Is it to send the Event? If so, I found that you don't need to send an email to send the event. The email is just an additional vehicle for providing the participant additional info AND adds the .vcs as an attachment.

I think once you save the the event with the email address in the PARTICIPANTS field, it gets delivered accordingly without additional steps. The event notification happens without the email push.

On another note, it's still bizarre that the email app doesn't launch. Mine does AND includes the send via bluetooth or email.

AGE

 

[bxojr]

Yes, my calendar syncs with the same Gmail account that I'm using for e-mail.

My specific situation is that when I create an event on my calendar, I want to send a notification to my work e-mail address so I can add it to my work calendar as well. (I'm not currently able to sync the two, so I have to make sure the event gets added in both places.)

It does look like sending the message from the phone is not necessary -- as soon as it gets added to my Google calendar, it looks like Google sends a message from the server. So the e-mail gets to my work address either way.

Mainly, I was just wondering why the calendar offers to send a message, and when I say "yes," says there's no application to do so. But it turns out it's just a minor annoyance, at least for me.

 

[oldAGE]

Right. And you don't have to send a separate email to send the event to your work calendar. When you add the "participant," that's all you need. In my case, we have the same phone and we run Outlook Exchange in our Enterprise. A very highly secured and strong stateful firewalled environment.

When I create an event, I add my contact (A's Work), which has my work email address in it. I chose that contact and save it. That's all. Nothing else necessary.

On my enterprise email account, I see the event come in via my Gmail account and all I need to do is Accept the event to change it from temporary to accepted on my Outlook Exchange Calendar. Then gmail gets a confirmation that I accepted. You don't have to send an email to spawn the event.

As for the whole no email app thing, that is truly bizarre. I personally don't have that experience. I get two options: using my email accounts or bluetooth. Check one thing, how many accounts do you have other than gmail and which one of those has the DEFAULT check box checked? See if you have some issues with that account.

 

[bxojr]

OK, one more data point. Normally I use the Gmail client, but as an experiment I tried setting up the default (Samsung?) "E-mail" client with a POP account.

As I suspected would happen, this fixed the problem. The calendar was able to send its messages just fine. So the problem seems to be that the calendar is hard-coded to use the default e-mail app, and does not recognize the Gmail client as an app that can send e-mail.

Definitely seems like a bug to me, but fortunately (for me) it's a non-issue, since I don't actually need the messages. I'll just say "no" when it prompts me.

 

[oldAGE]

Again, I don't get it. My Gmail is not my default Email account for anything yet anything that I do on the calendar is handled via Gmail. Again, you don't have to SEND VIA in order to synch your Gmail calendar and your work Exchange calendar... unless you or your IT department is blocking your SMTP traffic from gmail. You just create the event and that's it... no saving, no sending, no nothing.