Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 25, 2020 18:07 UTC (Wed) by dullfire (guest, #111432)
Parent article: Mutt releases version 2.0

As long as mutt can refrain from silently changing an existing account authentication mechanism settings after an update, it will have beaten thunderbird.

However I am curious: what do people use for scheduling/calendars in conjunction with mutt (it sounds like mutt itself would offload that to something else)?

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 25, 2020 18:25 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (2 responses)

I use something I wrote: Remind.

However, this is a personal calendar tool, not a group scheduling tool, so it's not a replacement for corporate calendaring tools. Remind is also very idiosyncratic and not to everyone's taste; it is not a dead-simple end-user calendar.

I do slurp both my work and personal Google calendars into Remind using an ICal-to-Remind converter so I can have everything in one place.

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 25, 2020 18:30 UTC (Wed) by leephillips (subscriber, #100450) [Link]

Remind is a great program. I used to use it before I had to succumb to the need for group calendaring.

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 26, 2020 3:37 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

Thank you! I've been using remind for long enough to have forgotten when I started. RCS says its earliest revision is from 2002, but that was when my home computer died and I bought a major replacement, going from Slackware to Gentoo, so I'm pretty certain it goes back before then.

I don't even try to track work calendars in remind. That uses whatever work supplies, which has never been particularly reliable, and that's fine with me -- keeps people reluctant to schedule things for me :-)

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 25, 2020 23:50 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

I used to use remind, but the value of having notifications on my portable attention brick and synchronization was just too useful and made me actually use the things. I use tools from https://github.com/pimutils on my machines:

- vdirsyncer for syncing
- khal for calendars
- todoman (I used to use taskwarrior and switched for similar reasons as remind) for tasks
- khard for contacts, though its mutt integration seem to have regressed

For importing events, I save the ical and `khal import` it. One could probably set up `.mailmap` to do this less manually though. Note that all of the latter support local-only accounts (as I keep as a short task list for work items in `todoman`.

On the phone:

- DAVx⁵
- Etar
- Tasks.org
- Stock Contacts app

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Dec 10, 2020 23:39 UTC (Thu) by emorrp1 (guest, #99512) [Link]

> khard for contacts, though its mutt integration seem to have regressed

I think I can help you with that, especially if you also have notmuch or a gpg keyring, I recommend using "lbdb":

# ~/.muttrc
set query_command = "lbdbq %s"

# ~/.lbdb/rc
MODULES_PATH="$MODULES_PATH $HOME/.lbdb"
METHODS="$METHODS m_notmuch m_khard m_gpg"
SORT_OUTPUT=false
PASSWD_IGNORESYS=true

# ~/.lbdb/m_notmuch
# https://gist.github.com/edigiacomo/aad4894da9a2f5a6ba078a...

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Dec 13, 2020 14:28 UTC (Sun) by jspricke (guest, #123988) [Link] (1 responses)

> I used to use remind, but the value of having notifications on my portable attention brick and synchronization was just too useful and made me actually use the things.

I have written a plugin for Radicale to serve Remind data through CalDAV:
https://github.com/jspricke/radicale-remind so you can connect with DAVx⁵.

And also command line tools to convert between icalendar and remind (to pipe ics attachments to, for example):
https://github.com/jspricke/python-remind

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Dec 15, 2020 21:49 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Ooh, those are handy links to have. Thanks. I'll keep them around in case I ever get the "oomph" to move back to remind. Lately, my events haven't been too complicated for CalDAV to represent and have spanned across midnight (IIRC, that's a limitation of remind), but things can change.

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 26, 2020 3:36 UTC (Thu) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link]

Well, you might take a peek at this : https://www.calcurse.org/ ...pretty darn good ...YMMV

Mutt releases version 2.0

Posted Nov 26, 2020 3:38 UTC (Thu) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link]

Well, you might take a peek at this : https://www.calcurse.org/ ...pretty darn good ...YMMV