[MlMt] RSVP/respond to ical/.ics calendar invite?

[Giovanni Lanzani]

On 17 Oct 2017, at 22:34, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2017, at 1:26, Jonas Kemper wrote:
>
>> Has anybody dealt with this before? My ideal scenario would be 
>> control elements to respond with "yes/no/maybe" in Mailmate whenever 
>> a meeting invite comes in.
>
> It seems you got a couple of somewhat promising replies. I cannot 
> offer to look into the RFCs and what exactly needs to be done to make 
> this work, but if someone does this part of the work then I promise to 
> help making it into a bundle including adding any features needed to 
> do that.
>

Benny, I'm willing to give it a try. A couple of questions before 
beginning:

- How does the bundle call the script? What kind of information would be 
available and how are they passed? In particular I would need:
   - the email account this was sent to/the account that received it;
   - the attachment (i.e. the invite);
   - the status
   - optionally a remark.
- And how does mailmate parse the reply? For example the invite needs to 
be encoded in base64.
- Is there a preference for programming languages? I'm mostly familiar 
with Python.

You can all have a look 
[here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4823574/sending-meeting-invitations-with-python) 
for a minimal Python implementation.

Replying is much easier though: you just need to change the content of 
one line of the invite (assuming no notes are added).

Cheers,

Giovanni


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