Re: Dealing with Exchange meeting invitations

On 2008-08-21, Thomas Wiegner <wiegner@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can one accept/decline a meeting invitation by sending a reply
in some defined format? If yes, where can I find some
documentation on what the reply is supposed to look like?

I'm afraid the answer is not exactly what you want. claws-mail has a
plugin which is able to answer invitations which is call vCalender

(http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=vcalendar)

This again, is built on top of libical, which might be a good
starting point for further information.

Interesting.

I'm told one can accept an invite by saving the e-mail to the
Calendar "folder" on the Exchange IMAP server. I assume that
the presence of the meeting.ics vcalendar attachment in
messages saved to that mailbox trigger a special feature in
Exchange server.

It's almost like Microsoft is trying to play nicely with non-MS
programs... [ominous music swells in background]

I also suspect that one can decline by modifying a couple
fields in the meeting.ics attachment before before saving it to
the Calendar folder. Were one to wade through RFCs 2445, 2446,
and 2447, it would probably be fairly obvious what fields to
change and how to change them.

Were one to write a filter program to modify those fields
appropriately, and were one to modify mutt to allow an
attachment to be modified in-place by piping it through an
external program...

If anybody runs into this "one" fellow, tell him to get busy.

Creating an invitation from scratch is a bit more complicated.
For the once every few years when I call a meeting, I can grit
my teeth and use the Exchange web interface. [Whoever wrote
that clunky beast should spend about 15 minutes playing with
Google Calendar and then try again.]

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