The original repo has/had issues working with radicale I also wanted for it to directly send an email, so I forked it here
it passes execution parameters via environmental variables
| variable | example | default | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENDER_EMAIL | "sender@email.com" | n/a | sender of the digest email |
| RECEIVER_EMAIL | "receiver@email.com" | n/a | recipient of the digest email |
| SMTP_PASSWORD | "password" | n/a | password of the sending email |
| SMTP_SERVER | "smtp.email.com" | n/a | address of smtp server |
| SMTP_PORT | 465 | 465 | script communicates via ssl |
| SMTP_FROM | "Calendar | n/a | overwrites the name of the sender |
| SMTP_SUBJECT | "Radicale: " | "Calendar - " | prefix of email subject, to help filtering |
| TZ | "Europe/Berlin" | "UTC" | |
| CAL_USERNAME | user | n/a | CALDAV user |
| CAL_PASSWORD | password | n/a | CALDAV password |
| CAL_BASE_URL | "server.com/radicale/" | n/a | CALDAV address without protocol, trailing '/' is important |
| CAL_PROTOCOL | "http" | "https" | CALDAV connection protocol |
a little python script to put together a daily digest of events, e.g. to be run from cron to email to a user
note that this was originally written against the Beehive groupware server that Oracle sells, when I was an employee forced to dogfood it. it might be useful for other caldav-speaking servers, offered up strictly in the hopes that it might be useful for someone.
- python 3.x
- caldav
- icalendar
2024 note: "apt install python3-caldav" is enough now (debian bookworm/12) to get all the dependencies in modern-enough version. The older instructions are left intact below in case they're useful for those in environments that don't have the right bits in their system's package manager.
(pip install -r requirements.txt should work, but as a note, if you end up with caldav <= 0.5 installed, and your system's usernames include an "@", you will need to patch one file by hand in line with this bug report: python-caldav/caldav#11 for convenience, a patch file has been included that can be applied by running patch -p0 < objects.py.patch wherever you have objects.py installed on your system)
optional but likely: a functioning cron setup to run this (e.g.: "30 6 * * 1-5 /path/to/caldav-daily-digest.py" to get a list of the day's meetings at 6:30am every workday)
linux (debian, python 3.4+, x86)
apache 2