/vcal2text

display Outlook meeting requests in mutt

Primary LanguagePerl

vcal2text - display Outlook meeting requests in mutt

Meeting requests sent from Outlook/Exchange are often missed due to being "hidden" behind a higher-priority text part. This script and mutt configuration ensures they're displayed in a nice format.

The original source was http://dollyfish.net.nz/ but that site appears to be gone.

Dave Holland dave@biff.org.uk

Installation:

  • copy vcal2text to somewhere suitable, e.g. ~/bin (make sure it's executable: chmod 755 vcal2text)
  • add these lines to your ~/.muttrc file:
alternative_order text/calendar text/enriched text/plain text
auto_view text/calendar
  • add this line to your ~/.mailcap file:
text/calendar; ~/bin/vcal2text '%s'; copiousoutput
  • install the necessary Perl libraries:
sudo apt-get install libdata-ical-perl libtext-autoformat-perl
  • enjoy your meeting requests :)