Re: vCalendar/iCalendar support for Gnus?

[Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>]

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.

| The only thing that is similar is the message always starts with:

Yeah, but that's just a mostly useless informal version of the
iCalendar REQUEST, which is in the next MIME part...

| ----> cut here <----
| When: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:30 PM-3:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time
| (US & Canada); Tijuana.
| Where: @The Roaster
| 
| *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
| ----> cut here <----
| 
| Maybe a washing function could be used for these (probably old-style
| messages).  I know we are not running exchange 2000.

...at least in Exchange 2000.  I think there should be a second
part in earlier Exchange messages too, but perhaps it's not
iCalendar stuff.  In any case, if what you cut away was actually
not usable information, while it might be "nice" to be able to
parse even that informal version, it probably isn't very useful in
practise, because you probably cannot reply to the request (here
I'm not meaning iCalendar request as this all was assuming that the
clipped part was not iCalendar stuff in that earlier Exchange).

-- 
Hannu