On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 01:08:05PM -0700, m...@amrx.net wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:48:35PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: >> If/when it becomes possible to RSVP, in a machine-readable fashion >> directly from Mutt, to calendar-invites-sent-via-email, I'll switch >> to that. > > No! The ultimate goal should be do accept calendar invitations from > your calendar!
I'm not opposed to this in principle. But first of all, this isn't primarily about my calendar (which might be on paper, or on an offline PDA), it's about RSVPing to invitations sent by other people who do use digital calendars, so that they don't have to manually record the contents of my RSVP on my behalf. I would not want to put them to that trouble if I could easily avoid it. Secondly, even if I had a piece of calendaring software on my PC that I wanted to use for accepting calendar invitations - as you suggest - which protocol should it use for retrieving and replying to those invitations? Where should it retrieve them from, and where should it send the responses? How should I identify my friend John Smith <johnsm...@example.com> from his and my mutual friend John Smith <yo.th...@example.net>, if not by their email addresses? How would any of these processes be secured from malfeasance? These are genuine questions. I guess you might suggest CalDAV over HTTPS as the protocol, and propose that my PC's calendaring software should be a CalDAV client. Also that I should run a CalDAV server that can receive meeting invites and that can also forward RSVPs from me to other people's CalDAV servers. And perhaps that I should continue to use email addresses as identifiers though not calendar invite/RSVP destinations. But I'm not aware of any calendaring software that supports anything close to all of this. So, I'm open to enlightenment. > Your mail client is reserved for reading email. MIME attached ics > files to coordinate meeting attendance is an atrocity. As long as it isn't abused as some kind of substitute for having a text/plain message, how is it any more of an atrocity than any other kind of attachment? (Again, this is a genuine question.) -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
