KMail, Korganizer, and iCal files

David F. Newman dnewman at maraudingpirates.org
Thu Nov 21 18:55:58 GMT 2002


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On Thursday 21 November 2002 02:15, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:25, David F. Newman wrote:
> >
> > Is there a better way to get this data into the KOrganizer?
>
> Yes. Since KDE 3.0.
> Hava look at
> http://korganizer.kde.org/workshops/KOrganizerIMIP/en/html/index.html
> for all the details.
>

I read through that document and it certainly is a better way of handling
iCal files, but here are a couple of problems I see:

1) If your Inbox is not a local mailbox KMail won't apply the filter 
to "incoming" email because it doesn't have a sense of what an 
incoming email is in this context.  Therefore one needs to run the 
filter manually.  The example in the doc shows the filter
being setup to match size > 1 so matching all messages.  This
would filter all messages through korganizerIn.  Even if I just
select the message with the appointment and run the filter, the
next time I run the filters for all my other email they will all get
piped through korganizerIn, unless I disable that filter when I
know I have no appointments.

2) Users need to know about this and setup filters to use Korganizer.

Therefore, IMHO, this solution seems somewhat kludgey.

So just as KMail recognizes what PGP is and doesn't pipe
every message through gpg just to see if there is something 
there (like I used to do with pine way back when), I think 
KMail should recognize iCal stuff for what it is.  For example,
when displaying a message with an ical attachment
KMail could pop up a dialog asking to import it into the 
KOrganizer with an option to just do it automatically.  Or put
a push button where the iCal attachment is to import it.
Maybe even a KOrganizer KPart to embed the "Accept/Reject"
functionality into KMail without having to launch the KOrganizer.

Bottom line.  It should be more integrated than it is.

p.s.  KMail is still the best MUA I have ever seen!!!!!

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