mutt-itip

README

mutt-itip

Enables mutt users to deal with iCal invitations in mutt. The overall process is defined in RFC 5546.Currently only the following features are implemented:

• accept / declined / tentatively accept invitations sending back reply mails to organizer. So far local calendar is not updated - would we need to do that?

  Refer to Section 3.2.3 of the RFC.

• cancellation of a invitation deletes corresponding event from your local calendar, i.e. the corresponding ics file is deleted from your icsDir.

  Refer to Section 3.2.5 of the RFC.

Note: Feel free to contribute other features, e.g. counter proposal, decline counter proposal, ...

Installation

Get the binary using go:

go get -u github.com/matoubidou/mutt-itip

In order to display invitations in mutt add the following lines to your mailcap:

text/calendar; mutt-itip format; copiousoutput
application/ics; mutt-itip format; copiousoutput

In order to be reply to invitations you need to configure mutt-itip as it needs to be able to send mails and access local calendars information. Here is a what the configuration file should look like:

cat << EOF > $HOME/.config/mutt-itiprc
mail: <your mail address>
icsDir: <directory where the ics files of your local calendar reside>
smtpAddr: <address of the smpt server to use, e.g. localhost:1025>
smtpUser: <user to use for smtp auth>
smtpPassCmd: <command printing password to use for smtp auth to stdout, e.g. pass youruser>
EOF

In order to be able to reply in mutt you might want to use the following macros:

bind index,pager i noop
macro index,pager ia '<pipe-entry>mutt-itip accept "Accept iCal invitation"
macro index,pager id '<pipe-entry>mutt-itip decline "Decline iCal invitation"
macro index,pager it '<pipe-entry>mutt-itip tentative "Tentatively accept iCal invitation"
macro index,pager iu '<pipe-entry>mutt-itip update "Update / Delete iCal invitation"