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How do I create a Thunderbird message filter for an attachment type?

Kellan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:55:06 +0000

I want to create a rule in Thunderbird that forwards every email I recieve that has an .ics attachment (aka meeting requests) to an abitrary address.

And I can’t figure out how to do it.

Help me Lazy Web! You’re my only hope.

Google Code: google-rfc-2445 recurrences

Kellan — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:33:00 +0000

Google Calendar’s implementation of RFC 2445 repeating events. Apache 2.0 license. Java.

http://code.google.com/p/google-rfc-2445/

Windows Calendar in Windows Vista Build 5231

Kellan — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:30:00 +0000

Wow, they’ll almost replicate all the features of Apple’s intentionally crippled calendaring toy

http://www.longhornblogs.com/bleblanc/archive/2005/10/19/15005.aspx

Tides at Half Moon Bay in iCal!

Kellan — Sat, 28 May 2005 21:23:30 +0000

And other locations

http://www.pycs.net/bbum/2005/5/28/#200505281

I find it deeply disturbing that a core member of the IETF Calsch WG doesn’t know what iCal.app is.

Kellan — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:29:45 +0000

Though perhaps that points as to why it is the now defunct working group

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/ietf-calsify/2005-February/000440.html

Report on Roundtable II/Interop II — 11-13 January 2005

Kellan — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:42:42 +0000

Interesting report back on the state of calendar standards

http://www.calconnect.org/roundtable2.html

http://twiki.abuse.yahoo.com/twiki/bin/ view/PIM/PIMStandardsLinks

Kellan — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:17:37 +0000

Official mysteriously interesting referer of the week

http://laughingmeme.org//archives/000329.html

Stanford event feeds with iCal enclosures.

Kellan — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:24:25 +0000

Neat. I hadn’t thought of using enclosures to syndicate event info.

http://varchars.com/blog/node/view/158

[Ietf-calsify] The guts of recurrence rules as implemented

Kellan — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:16:55 +0000

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/ietf-calsify/2004-December/000331.html

More calendar stuff

Kellan — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:10:15 +0000

keywords: icalendar, udell, caldav, dasl, python. to blog.

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2004/12/08#1165

Upcoming now supports iCalendar (and iCal.app)

Kellan — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:09:26 +0000

Calendars available as .ics files, easily subscribe from iCal, MozCal, or eventSherpa, or PHPiCal

http://upcoming.org/news/archives/2004/03/11/ical_int/index.php

Upcoming.org to iCal

Kellan — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:03:00 +0000

Converts Upcoming’s RSS feed to a .ics file.

http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/upcomingorg_to_ical.php

iCal confirmed

Kellan — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:05:00 +0000

What a difference a weekend makes, and the difference is proof. (/me hums along badly)

Apple reps say they are using iCalendar, and plan to be at the next CalConnect event

ectomort formerly of fusionOne says “Apple’s got plenty of SyncML expirence despite the apparent silence”.

In response to Jason’s excellent overview of the calsch world, I want to say, that calling xCal (another name with venerable history) iCalendar version 3, might be over stating the case a bit. TimBL did do an intial XML/RDF profile of iCalendar, which was largely ignored, and rejected. Since then Frank Dawson, now working with the SyncML folks, has been trying to bring XML to a group that is very pre-Web, focused on BNF grammars, email, and custom protocols, not without a little friction. Notice that in the recently published Guide to Internet Calendaring, June 2002 there is one mention of XML, in the same sentence with the words: “non-standard”, and HTTP.

AaronSW: ” Hmph, TimBL and other W3Cers show them how to convert it to RDF/HTTP and they go and make it XML/BEEP.” LOL

Note: CAP isn’t really using XML, its using XML over BEEP as a transport layer for iCalendar blobs.

Apple and iCal (and iSync)

Kellan — Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:43:13 +0000

There are lots of discussions going on about whether Apple’s newly announced iCal.app, will actually support the venerable, and much discussed, though little deployed iCalendar standard (affectionately known as iCal)

Clues

In the keynote Jobs noted that the new iSync.app will use SyncML (though no news about this from the SyncML people). The SyncML spec is largely written by Frank Dawson of Lotus Scheduling fame, who is also the original author behind vCard/vCal and the iCalendar spec. SyncML uses iCalendar as the data binding for calendar info. Therefore iCalendar data is coming out of iCal one way or another, hopefully Apple did the smart thing up front and made iCal.app iCal aware.
“Send standards-based email event invitations”. So far iCalendar’s greatest success has been its profile iMip, which maps the scheduling aspects of iCalendar into email. Functioning if flawed implementations of this exist in both Outlook, and Entourage. I can’t imagine Apple is using something else.

Now this doesn’t answer some of the more interesting questions of whether iCal.app will be a fully functioning CUA as laid out in iTip, or what its on the wire protocol for talking to .Mac will be.

Also, because it seems to be coming up a lot, iCalendar’s relationship to vCalendar is essentially a version 2, and is largely backwards compatible.