Dear Brain, dear mutt users,
I'm sorry I cannot help you with your request and I apologise on forehand
for breaking in into this mail thread. But what does the vcalendar-filter
do? Can you share the ``script'' with us? I would also like to automate the
processing of .ics attachments.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:31:59PM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> I used vcalender long ago, but then had no use for it, but I am now getting a
> lot of important emails from the university where I have an adjunct
> appointment. I work at home and I do not have the Windows nonsense that full
> time members of the department have to use. I use mutt as I have done for
> longer than I can now remember.
>
> In my mailcap I have:-
>
> text/calendar; /home/brian/.mutt/vcalendar-filter; copiousoutput
> application/ics; /home/brian/.mutt/vcalendar-filter; copiousoutput
>
> from long ago.
>
> I have now got the second line to work when there is a *.ics attachment.
> I had to download and install several perl modules used by vcalendar-filter
> which were not on my current machine.
>
> However I get messages where the whole email is text/calendar with
> nothing else. Typing 'v' just shows:-
>
> 1 [ 8.6K] "<no description>" quoted-printable text/calendar
>
> Opening that gives:-
>
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 14.0 MIMEDIR//EN
> VERSION:2.0
> METHOD:REQUEST
> X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
> BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
> TZID:AUS Eastern Standard Time
> BEGIN:STANDARD
> DTSTART:16010401T030000
> RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
> TZOFFSETFROM:+1100
> TZOFFSETTO:+1000
> END:STANDARD
> BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
> DTSTART:16011007T020000
> RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=10
> TZOFFSETFROM:+1000
> TZOFFSETTO:+1100
> END:DAYLIGHT
> END:VTIMEZONE
> BEGIN:VEVENT
>
> and so on. Is that expected or is there a way to get something
> a bit more useful?
>
> It is a long time ago when I added anything usefull to the mutt project, so
> many thanks to all who have kept it going so well over the years. It must also
> be many years since I posted here.
>
> Cheers, Brian.
>
> --
> On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr.
> Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
> come out?". I am not able rightly to comprehend the kind of confusion of
> ideas that could provoke such a question.
> -- Charles Babbage
> Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au
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Met vriendelijke groeten,
With kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
De jrus wah,
Wiel
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