Feature Request: Calendar Support

[HaxCzar]

Integrate calendar support, as well as syncing with web calendars such as google calendar

[Shickmo]

If there could be support for Office 365 Business account calendars as well this would be a serious advantage over the conversation.

[applesea2]

Please add this. Its a must to be have calendar integration built into a mail client or it defeats the purpose of having one

[t3mujin]

I'm backing this one also, it's a deal breaker for me. I'm not even saying a full calendar support, it would be nice though ;) , but better handling on incoming event requests would be great!

[Thrakius]

It would be the all in one solution if we would be able to sync calendars. Love the client so far though.

[theurso]

Agreed - w/out calendar support this is hard to switch to for business use.

[bensullivan2002]

Absolutely love this mail client but, as above, it needs to have calendar integration for business use.

[mannp]

CalDAV support would be great to allow syncing with my nextcloud instance.

[MirkoLedda]

I second a calendar integration as well.

[h4d3z]

Would also love (and really need) a calender integration.
If it could sync with google that would be excellent.

[ghost]

+1 more for google calendar sync.

[mchilson]

Ditto here! Love the client. Just needs calendar integration.

[applesea2]

I'd recommend pulling Google/Outlook/etc calendars based on the account from the web and integrating events with the emails

[sathiz1993]

+1

[alechko]

love mailspring, best email client I've used under linux, must have calendar support to be proper replacement to others.

[khaks01]

Mailspring is outstanding experience on Ubuntu, good UI and functional. Missing my calendars badly here. Add gmail/ outlook calendar sync/ integration.

[scothost]

Mail client looks great and connects to my Microsoft account. Unfortunately it does not have Office365 support only office outlook support so I installed it based on misrepresented claims of its ability. As with most Office365 users no calendar support is a showstopper. ... Shame - had to go to all the trouble of signing up for a mailspring account only to find no calendar - uninstalled after 5 mins - perhaps ill try again in a year or 2

[SAShapeShifter]

Hi, Its a far nicer client than Thunderbird for my Linux computer, but CalDAV support would be required as I use it for business use, I cant open up two programs to handle invites or send invites.
But when done wil be amazing

[Pierrotws]

+1, this is really needed for day-to-day use. I'm sooo sadly going back to thunderbird until invitations are supported

[ricardovsilva]

Is there someone looking at this? If answer is negative, can someone point me a point to start? I can start coding that feature, I will be glad if someone with UX expertise draw some sketchs.

[tvieiragoncalves]

+1

[FDiskas]

And add support to VCALENDAR (Microsoft Exchange Server 2010) attachments in mails for events.
example file looks like

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:CANCEL
PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:W. Europe Standard Time
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:16010101T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
...
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=de-DE:Abgesagt: Daily Standup Team
DTSTART;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20180117T104500
DTEND;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20180117T110000
UID:***
RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20180117T104500
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:1
DTSTAMP:20180117T083122Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CANCELLED
SEQUENCE:19
LOCATION;LANGUAGE=de-DE:Raum Team
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:19
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:1405982689
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:FREE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:2
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:3
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

[rsramesh]

+1 for calendar support, atleast syncing with google calendar.

[dwuttke90]

+1 and outlook.com ;)

[ricardovsilva]

@everyone Please, don't spam this thread with "+1" messages. Github added capability to add reaction to prevent that.

[HaxCzar]

@ricardosilva +1 ;)

[AndreasJacobsen]

Calendar would be super, you could make office 365 calendar only for pro users, a great way to make money. I can't really switch out Thunderbird for Mailspring now due to lack of calendar support. But will as soon as you provide calendar support :)

[theurso]

Any update on calendar support being added?

[asm0dey]

@lukasbradley what are you migrating to?

[tracker1]

@asm0dey can't speak for above, but I've been using a combination of Outlook on Windows, and an electron wrapper for outlook web on Linux/Mac. I've also been using a bit of Thunderbird for some secondary emails and Gmail web and/or an electron wrapper for that.

Would love it all in one box, but no one box does a very good job of it.

[estebanjosealva]

I think most of us understand that this kind of development takes time. But 3 years? Either something is very wrong, or developing the calendar functionality for Mailspring is incredibly difficult. In either case, a little bit more explanation from Mailspring devs would be appreciated. Heck, I'd even pay for the premium plan if this proves to be the solution we were all waiting for.

[tracker1]

To expand on @estebanjosealva not sure if the app model supports it, but if it were a paid extension, I'd be willing to go that route for this.

[F1nny]

Has anyone seen any word/update/note on this from the team in the past year+?

Major bummer as LOVE Mailspring - it's beautiful and exactly what we need with a current-gen email client, especially in the linux community, but the lack of this support has been a major blocker for most. Would bring in a ton of $$ for the project for business users going pro.

Hell at this point I think if could setup a sponsor a feature sort of thing, a lot of us would pay/donate to get this feature moving again ASAP 😞 Maybe doable with github sponsors @Foundry376 ? 🤞

There's also plenty of us in the community who would be willing to help and develop this feature too - the trick is, I'm not sure if the calendar support needs to be handled within the sync engine, which case that's out as an option since closed source ☹️ -
Anyone know if that's the case or not?

[13pixlar]

Has anyone seen any word/update/note on this from the team in the past year+?

Major bummer as LOVE Mailspring - it's beautiful and exactly what we need with a current-gen email client, especially in the linux community, but the lack of this support has been a major blocker for most. Would bring in a ton of $$ for the project for business users going pro.

Hell at this point I think if could setup a sponsor a feature sort of thing, a lot of us would pay/donate to get this feature moving again ASAP disappointed Maybe doable with github sponsors @Foundry376 ? crossed_fingers

There's also plenty of us in the community who would be willing to help and develop this feature too - the trick is, I'm not sure if the calendar support needs to be handled within the sync engine, which case that's out as an option since closed source frowning_face -
Anyone know if that's the case or not?

@bengotow @Foundry376 Please respond in some way. Are donations or collaboration a way to move this forward?

[vaibhavjain3]

Such a waste of time. Request is just getting delayed from 3 years.
Migrating now from Mailspring to Mailbird.

[rohit901]

Any updates on this? would love this feature.

[eibrunorodrigues]

@rohit901 unfortunately the project seems abandoned.

[rohit901]

@eibrunorodrigues you mean mailspring project itself has been abandoned or only the calendar support? I'm on Manjaro and I would want desktop notification of my google calendar events, do you know how can i achieve that?

[eibrunorodrigues]

@rohit901 The project itself. But taking a good look at the pull request history, I think the owner of this project is only reviewing pull requests. So to achieve the calendar I think we may need to create a pull request. I'm going to take a look later and maybe continue this issue. I too really want the calendar support (not only for Google but for Office 365 as well)

[ostenning]

What would be great is an answer from the project owner. Any kind of feedback regarding this would be appreciated. I have literally been following this thread for 2 years and seen nothing from it.

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On Nov 19 2020, at 2:34 pm, Bruno Rodrigues da Silva ***@***.***> wrote: @rohit901 (https://github.com/rohit901) The project itself. But taking a good look at the pull request history, I think the owner of this project is only reviewing pull requests. So to achieve the calendar I think we may need to create a pull request. I'm going to take a look later and maybe continue this issue. I too really want the calendar support (not only for Google but for Office 365 as well) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub (#199 (comment)), or unsubscribe (https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEMCUIOIJ7QVU4ENKLPJFNLSQUNGXANCNFSM4D7XHCDQ).

[eibrunorodrigues]

@ostenning Yep! I send him an email. Let's see if he responds. But following other threads, It looks like he's not responding.

[sgdavis1]

As soon as this is added I am going to switch. Wish I could help in some way but I doubt I could make a meaningful contribution...
(The latest thunderbird is royally effing up my calendar lately :( ... )

[aigoncharov]

For Ubuntu users, you can add your Google (or other accounts) to your system (see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts). Then all your calendars will show up in the built-in local calendar.
As to accepting the invites, I use Google calendar, which sends any invite as rich HTML where you can click on the accept button to add it online.

[rohit901]

@aigoncharov any work around for manjaro users? i had been doing the same in Ubuntu but switched to manjaro recently.

[eibrunorodrigues]

@aigoncharov I'm using Office 365 which is not very supported for invites on email clients. Only Evolution has this support, and it is not a very good application.

[aigoncharov]

@rohit901 @eibrunorodrigues sorry, I am unaware of workarounds for you. I have just shared what works for me.

[ostenning]

I think using wine and a windows based email client could be a working solution. Defeats the point though

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[RedKage]

This is a dead project and dead product unfortunately, and we need to find an alternative. Any suggestions?

I have been using "eM Client" https://www.emclient.com/?lang=en for a few years now.
It's the total opposite in terms of philosophy, it's closed source, and paid. Quite expensive as well
Managed to get 2 lifetime licenses a few years back during a promotion. Maybe a black friday or something.

But this covers all my needs, with a somewhat functional calendar, multiple emails account support, webdav account, contact account, etc.

I used to use Thunderbird+Lightning, but with a dozen email accounts, each of them existing for at least decade without deleting any emails.... it was so slow that it crashed. Not sure if the inbox format has changed or not in Thunderbird since then, but I had to stop using it because of that. Couldn't handle gigabytes of emails properly.

[foundry376-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Mailspring Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.getmailspring.com/t/calendar-support/85/1

[CodeMouse92]

This task is underway.

2020 prevented much development work on Mailspring, but rest assured, development has resumed! Contrary to rumor, Mailspring is very much not dead.

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