[horde] iCal and Outlook/Entourage

[Greg Harris]

On 6/26/06 11:25 AM, "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org> wrote:

> Zitat von Greg Harris <gharris at mail.nixa.k12.mo.us>:
> 
>> On 6/26/06 11:50 AM, "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Zitat von Greg Harris <gharris at mail.nixa.k12.mo.us>:
>>> 
>>>> On 6/23/06 2:30 PM, "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Zitat von Greg Harris <gharris at mail.nixa.k12.mo.us>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This may be way off topic for the list, but this is the best place I can
>>>>>> think to put it.  It may not even be possible, but I think it
>>>>>> might be, if
>>>>>> only I knew the right pieces.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There does not currently seem to be any way to use
>>>>>> Outlook/Entourage to edit
>>>>>> the Kronolith calendar, without using Sync, with isn't ready for
>>>>>>  daily use.
>>>>>> If I am wrong about this, please correct me and I will be a very happy
>>>>>> admin.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I know is it possible to send an invite to one's self and using sieve,
>>>>>> filter the invite out using the from header and the subject
>>>>>> header to then
>>>>>> run a script on this e-mail.  The key part, and really
>>>>>> dumbfounding part for
>>>>>> me, is that the script will then add/modify the event on a user's shared
>>>>>> Kronolith calendar.  Yes, all participants would have to be
>>>>>> pretty savvy to
>>>>>> use it, but it sure beats having them loose all their calendar
>>>>>> information.
>>>>>> (Also, I am trying to implement this with a tech group, so it can be a
>>>>>> little convoluted, as long as it is fairly automated.)  I think
>>>>>> it would be
>>>>>> possible to tell Outlook/Entourage to always invite me, taking
>>>>>> care of that
>>>>>> side of the automation.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Did you hide a question in your message that I missed?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jan.
>>>> Apparently so.  How do I get the invitation automatically added to my
>>>> calendar?
>>> 
>>> You don't. This is not how invitations work.
>>> 
>>>> P.S.  Isn't there a way to set list replies to go back to the list, instead
>>>> of the person by default?
>>> 
>>> Use an email client that understands List- email headers, like IMP.
>>> 
>>> Jan.
>> 
>> So you are saying that there is no way to run a sieve script to
>> automatically accept an invitation to a calendar event?  It would seem that
>> this would be possible with the way that IMP reads the events and asks you
>> if you want to accept and add the invitation.  Maybe I am expecting too much
>> from scripting.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't re-read your original message. Well, this is not
> possible with sieve, but at least with procmail, you can pipe messages
> to external (shell) scripts. Such a script could extract the iCalendar
> information from the message and automatically accept the invitation.
> But that needs some programming work.
> 
> Jan.

Hrm, interesting concept in the least.  Any idea about how much programming?
If it is just a few lines of code, it might be something to work with while
we await a stable version of Sync, otherwise, we already have too many
projects and not near enough time.

Thanks,

Greg Harris