Mailspring: Support for responding to calendar events

Created on 18 Nov 2018 · 6Comments · Source: Foundry376/Mailspring

What operating system are you using?

Manjaro linux

What version of Mailspring are you using?

version 1.5.2

Email service

Exchange

Feature Request?

The current state

Currently when an email is received with a calendar event as an attachment its not detected as a calendar event so I cannot respond to the invite.

What I did

I tried writing a plugin which could detect the attachments,

main.es6
...
  ExtensionRegistry.MessageView.register(OutlookCalendarEvent);
...

import { MessageViewExtension,
         Actions,
         AttachmentStore } from 'mailspring-exports';

export default class OutlookCalendarEvent extends MessageViewExtension {
    static renderedMessageBodyIntoDocument({ document, message, iframe }) {
        message.files.map(file => {
            if (file.contentType === "text/calendar") {
                var filepath = AttachmentStore.pathForFile(file);
                fetch(filepath).then(response => {
                    var filedata = response.text()
                    console.log('FOUND FILE', filedata)
                })

                console.log("FOUND CALENDAR EVENT", file, filepath);

                var div = document.createElement('div');
                div.className = 'btn';
                div.innerText = 'Accept event invite';

                // iframe.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', '<div class="btn">Accept invite</div>');
                document.body.append(div);

            };
        });

    };
}

Though the above adds a button under the displayed message, after some inspection I found that the above approach is not that accurate i.e. it would make more sense to have another element type to handle such attachments as done here

What I would like

I would be great if the calendar event attachment is detected and the relevant action buttons are shown to the user. I am willing to take up this task if someone is willing to help me out a little.

PS: I am using MineTime for calendar and as an end goal I would like to see the accepted events reflected there!

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