Re: gnus-calendar / gnus-icalendar in Emacs24?

[Gijs Hillenius]

On 19 Dec 2014, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
>
>> The past two days I've had a few occasions to put this to the
>> test. When someone using Lotus Notes sends me an invitation,
>> gnus-icalendar is even able to return accept responses. Yay!
>>
>> For Outlook/Exchange based invitations, I can add the meeting
>> requests, but there is no [accept] thingie.
>
> I must confess that this invitation business is brand new to Yours
> Truly. I used Outlook to send love letters as a kid but perhaps what
> was lacking even then was invitations. Can I send an invitation from
> Gnus, and how is that any different from a plain mail except for some
> repercussions in (I presume) the icalendar GUI client?

[accept] sends an automatically crafted email to the meeting host ( I
don't see it, it is a flash in the minibuffer). At the host the
information also automagically gets inserted in the meeting calender
entry. (x will attend, or x has confirmed... )