From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 20:27:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F87E1065674 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewberry@sentex.net) Received: from mailhub.cs.uoguelph.ca (mailhub.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.94.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0227A8FC26 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewberry@sentex.net) Received: from batman.cs.uoguelph.ca (batman.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.93.48]) by mailhub.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5AKRmlM006441; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:27:48 -0400 Received: from wblizzard.lan (p201xjl1ll.dsl2.sentex.ca [64.7.159.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by batman.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5AKRT4c026735 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:27:30 -0400 Message-Id: From: Andrew Berry To: Chad Perrin In-Reply-To: <20080610174708.GB75976@kokopelli.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:27:46 -0400 References: <20080610174708.GB75976@kokopelli.hydra> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) X-Spam-Scanner: SpamAssassin 3.000004 (http://www.spamassassin.org/) on batman.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Spam-Score: hits=0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Tests: FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Status: Suspected X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 131.104.94.205 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 172.17.94.85 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: viewing vCalendar files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:51 -0000 On 10-Jun-08, at 1:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > I've been sent a vCalendar file via email. I use mutt as my mail user > agent, and am not terribly interested in switching to mail/claws-mail > just so I can read this vCalendar file (generated in MS Outlook). > > Is there some command line tool that will create a readable text file > from this, a Mutt extension that can handle it, or anything along > those > lines, in Ports? What are my options, besides just deleting all the > vCalendar markup cruft by hand (or writing a script to do it for me)? If you just need to read it, then open it up in a text editor. vCalendar / iCalendar markup is pretty simple. Virtually any calendaring app should be able to read the file, including Mozilla Sunbird, Evolution, Kontact, and so on. There are also web calendars such as Webcalendar in ports, or you could just use Google Calendar. If the sender is expecting a vCal file back to confirm / deny the appointment, then you'll need to make sure that you send back a valid file. --Andrew