Propagating the notion that E-Mail and Calendar are separate things is probably the best thing to do, to undo their evil marriage. The calendar related RFC's that I have looked at indicate that the protocols were designed work and communicate completely independent of E-Mail, yet the majority of people believe these things are designed or must to go together.
Truly, sending the human an E-Mail, to read, is a great response, but could trigger a frustrating conversation about auto populating calendar items, be prepared to defend your mutt way of life. On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:44:16AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Felix Finch wrote: > > On 20200404, Sam Kuper wrote: > >>This ~/.mailcap works tolerably under Gnome [...] > > > > I've been using something similar for several years, and one thing > > missing from this is a way to respond to invites. Perhaps it's an > > Outlook-only thing, but I invariable get followup emails asking me to > > click "Accept", and I never see any such links. Looking at it in the > > Outlook webmail, there is an RSVP section with buttons for Accept > > Yes/No. > > AFAICT, this is just another Micro$oft lock-in attempt. > > > > Looking at the actual mime part, each invitee has an RSVP section. > > > > ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Joe > > Blow :mailto:jb...@megacorp.com > > > > [...] Do any calendar filters replicate this RSVP business? [...] > > I, too, would be grateful to know this. Not because I support lock-in, > but because simplifying calendar invites/RSVPs should not be beyond the > means of free (as in freedom) software. (Compatibility with proprietary > implementations should be a secondary concern.) The key difficulty is > likely to be broken time zone implementations (see below). > > > In the meantime, you can just reply to the message (which, after all, > was sent as an email): "Thanks, I accept your invitation to the meeting > at 5pm PDT on 5th May 2020." > > N.B. I strongly suggest including the time, zone and date in your reply, > as above, because sometimes automated invites: > > - use the wrong time zone for the event, AND > - do not specify the time zone that they are assuming! > > > > The only "http" links are for zoom. > > Don't be shy about alerting those senders that they are sending you > links to malware. Seriously. See: https://gu.com/p/dtx4g > > N.B. Even MS Outlook should not be sending Zoom links by default (not > because Micro$oft cares about giving you malware, but because Zoom is > non-Micro$oft). So, those senders presumably installed or configured > something at their end that causes those links to be inserted. > > -- > A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? > > () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary > /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
