@worldsendless Don't get me wrong here. I love #Emacs and I'm probably working in Emacs for the majority of my computer hours.
However, Emacs is NOT doing "very, very good" at #email - at all.
I can't accept meeting invitations, it doesn't link to any groupware server in an easy and reliable way, I can't compose invitations.
There may be hacks but so far, I didn't see anything I'd recommend to anybody.
For the average business usage, Emacs is a total failure with respect to email. 😔
@publicvoit @worldsendless Do we regard "groupware" (i.e. Outlook) features as core elements of "email"?
@mhd @worldsendless I consider managing invitations as core elements of business email usage, yes. I don't want to switch from my MUA to a web interface to simply press the "acceppt"-button or to compose an invitation email notification.
@publicvoit @mhd @worldsendless
I couldn't tell you how (but I think it's through gnu-icalendar) but I can click to accept invitations in Gnus.
@bthalpin @mhd @worldsendless Sounds like a "works on my machine" solution and not like a groupware integration. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'd really like to read about Emacs workflows for business.
@publicvoit @mhd @worldsendless
It's an I-don't-quite-know-how-it-works reply, but gnus-icalendar (which I think is built-in) gives Gnus some iCal functionality (so integration, if limited).
I *think* this is what gives me the accept/decline buttons to click but I couldn't confirm without a bit of experimentation.
(require 'gnus-icalendar)
(gnus-icalendar-setup)
@bthalpin @publicvoit @mhd I've wondered why those "accept" buttons just work...
