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Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org> writes:

> One of the few features of Microsoft Outlook that make it worth using
> in a corporate environment is the ability to receive meeting
> announcements and automatically update calendars.  Unix has had this
> capability for years in some mail clients (elm comes to mind) but it's
> noticeably absent in Gnus.

Have a  look at the  nndiary backend. It  looks like this,  but doen't
use vcalendar. 

vcalendar is implemented  in Evolution which is free  (but not written
in lisp :-( ). 

-- 
Matthieu