[quote user="Martin Schnabel"]

As a work-around it should be possible to use a batch-file and set it as viewer-program in Pmail, probably like this:

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So straightforward that I did not even think on this direction :) Thanks for pointing the way!

Hi!

Has anybody derived a solution to sensibly work with  calendar invites with pmail?

I have been using external programs like pmical and rainlendar as content viewers.  Both are good in their own respect but lack the important function to actually reply to invites (accept/decline/propose new time). In todays business environment calendar invites are unfortunately become selfcontained peaces of information. People do not bother (or do not know how to set up exchange) to copy the content of invite into textual part.

So has anybody came across the lightweight solution that can integrate with pmail and manage calendar content and is able to produce VCALENDAR format response (and send it via pmail), perhaps additionally execute another app to actually import the content into own PIM?

PS - does somebody has a hint how to execute two different apps per one attachment from pmail? Like run a pmical to view the content of calendar invite and as a second choice run a rainlendar to import the calendar entry into calendar?

Just a small update to your note. Pmical does have response to invitations builtin. Menu items Response/Yes or Response/No  will both generate a message to the originator, and also provide the standard Pegasus Mail compose screen, so that extra info can be added to the reply.

As for sending a vCalendar response, this would require a full app to handle both the receiving and responding, with all their options. See the vCalendar RFC documentation for a whole lot of detail that covers this.

I have not pursed calendaring as an app as there will soon be something coming out in Pegasus Mail V5. Actually, the code for a Sqlite database system is in place, but not developed fully, so I am not releasing it yet. There would be too many complaints about incompatability with Outlook Exchange and Apple Mail systems.  Functions such as Free/Busy Time tracking would become mandatory, and require frequent connections with these other mail calendaring apps.

I would appreciate comments/suggestions anyway, and would try to accommodate them.

Martin

Hello Martin!

[quote user="irelam"]

Just a small update to your note. Pmical does have response to invitations builtin.

Indeed from meny a textual response can be sent but that was not that I had in mind. Business environment requires vcalendar response as this is processed automatically on the senders end. Calendaring nowedays happens in the background where invites and responses beeing processed automatically.

For pmical perhaps one nice addition would be to execute configurable external command that would take an ical file as one of the input parameters. Such a functionlity can be separate selection and also this option  could be configurable to be be tied to the textual YES response so that by confirming attendance an automatic import of ics file to external calendaring app could be performed.

 It would be also advisable to bring YES/NO responses from meny straight into meeting description widow as "action buttons"

 The interoperability with other calendaring apps like lightning or rainlendar would be advisable - that means some kind automatic export of changes in ICS format and subscription mechanism (also WebDAV support).

 This is nice to hear that pmail v5 has calendaring planned and I would be testing this for sure on my corporate office365 account once available.

just to let you know I have read your suggestions, and I am looking into providing them.

Martin

[quote user="Paavo"]

PS - does somebody has a hint how to execute two different apps per one attachment from pmail? Like run a pmical to view the content of calendar invite and as a second choice run a rainlendar to import the calendar entry into calendar?

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As a work-around it should be possible to use a batch-file and set it as viewer-program in Pmail, probably like this:

@echo off

start "" C:\<path>\pmical.exe %1

start  "" c.\<path>\rainlendar.exe %1

%1 is the variable for the attachment file name, pmail  hands over to the batch file.

HTH

Martin