Re: vCalendar/iCalendar support for Gnus?

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> 
> | Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> | 
> | > On 03 Jan 2001, Jaap-Henk Hoepman wrote:
> | > 
> | > > I really would love this too (not necessarily within gnus
> | > > though). Problem is that IMAP appears not to be enough to access the
> | > > calender and contact items stored on the Exchange server. You can
> | > > get the subjects, but not the date and time of the
> | > > appointment. Apparantly MAPI is needed to access these other
> | > > details.
> | > 
> | > If I were to implement such stuff, I'd put the additional information
> | > into some hidden message header fields.  So that's probably precisely
> 
> Uh, you would need quite a lot of header data.  Anyways, in Microsoft's
> case the relevant information is fortunately not in the header fields,
> it's in the body...
> 
> | > what Microsoft did not do.  But I think it doesn't hurt to do `C-u g' on
> | > such a message just to be sure.
> 
> ...but `C-u g' is a good thing to do anyway, because Gnus doesn't
> display the relevant MIME part by default.

For me, there is no other MIME part.  The content-type of the main message
is text/plain (charset of iso-8859-1), and there is nothing else in the
message.  No iCalendar or vCalendar at all.

All hail exchange and its many faces!

-Bill P.