diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a4a87a6ca9..b15800e54a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -452,6 +452,27 @@ version = "0.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "904dfeac50f3cdaba28fc6f57fdcddb75f49ed61346676a78c4ffe55877802fd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base64-stream"
+version = "1.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f6596cd4b981cb9e85a9bddf2d1c3a76ebffe64f9e6b0ea6f053d810aea7807c"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.13.0",
+ "educe",
+ "generic-array",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "bincode"
+version = "1.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f30d3a39baa26f9651f17b375061f3233dde33424a8b72b0dbe93a68a0bc896d"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bit-set"
 version = "0.5.2"
@@ -685,6 +706,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "chrono-tz"
+version = "0.5.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2554a3155fec064362507487171dcc4edc3df60cb10f3a1fb10ed8094822b120"
+dependencies = [
+ "chrono",
+ "parse-zoneinfo",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "circular"
 version = "0.3.0"
@@ -812,7 +843,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "criterion-plot",
  "csv",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.9.0",
  "lazy_static",
  "num-traits",
  "oorandom",
@@ -834,7 +865,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e022feadec601fba1649cfa83586381a4ad31c6bf3a9ab7d408118b05dd9889d"
 dependencies = [
  "cast",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.9.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -991,6 +1022,12 @@ version = "2.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d4d0e2d24e5ee3b23a01de38eefdcd978907890701f08ffffd4cb457ca4ee8d6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "debug-helper"
+version = "0.3.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9a8a5bb894f24f42c247f19b25928a88e31867c0f84552c05df41a9dd527435e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "deflate"
 version = "0.8.6"
@@ -1029,9 +1066,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "futures-lite",
  "hex",
+ "ical",
  "image",
  "indexmap",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.9.0",
  "kamadak-exif",
  "lettre_email",
  "libc",
@@ -1046,7 +1084,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "pretty_assertions",
  "pretty_env_logger",
  "proptest",
- "quick-xml",
+ "quick-xml 0.18.1",
  "r2d2",
  "r2d2_sqlite",
  "rand",
@@ -1067,6 +1105,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "toml",
  "url",
  "uuid",
+ "vcard",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1209,6 +1248,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "educe"
+version = "0.4.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7260c7e6e656fc7702a1aa8d5b498a1a69aa84ac4ffcd5501b7d26939f368a93"
+dependencies = [
+ "enum-ordinalize",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "either"
 version = "1.6.1"
@@ -1335,6 +1386,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "enum-ordinalize"
+version = "3.1.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1676e1daadfd216bda88d3a6fedd1bf53b829a085f5cc4d81c6f3054f50ef983"
+dependencies = [
+ "num-bigint 0.3.1",
+ "num-traits",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "env_logger"
 version = "0.7.1"
@@ -1363,6 +1427,28 @@ version = "2.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f7531096570974c3a9dcf9e4b8e1cede1ec26cf5046219fb3b9d897503b9be59"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "failure"
+version = "0.1.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d32e9bd16cc02eae7db7ef620b392808b89f6a5e16bb3497d159c6b92a0f4f86"
+dependencies = [
+ "backtrace",
+ "failure_derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "failure_derive"
+version = "0.1.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aa4da3c766cd7a0db8242e326e9e4e081edd567072893ed320008189715366a4"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+ "synstructure",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fallible-iterator"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -1754,6 +1840,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "quick-error",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ical"
+version = "0.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4a9f7215ad0d77e69644570dee000c7678a47ba7441062c1b5f918adde0d73cf"
+dependencies = [
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ident_case"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -1833,6 +1928,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "winreg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f56a2d0bc861f9165be4eb3442afd3c236d8a98afd426f65d92324ae1091a484"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itertools"
 version = "0.9.0"
@@ -2161,6 +2265,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "num-traits",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num-bigint"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5e9a41747ae4633fce5adffb4d2e81ffc5e89593cb19917f8fb2cc5ff76507bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg 1.0.1",
+ "num-integer",
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-bigint-dig"
 version = "0.6.0"
@@ -2254,6 +2369,12 @@ version = "1.4.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "260e51e7efe62b592207e9e13a68e43692a7a279171d6ba57abd208bf23645ad"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "oncemutex"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "44d11de466f4a3006fe8a5e7ec84e93b79c70cb992ae0aa0eb631ad2df8abfe2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "oorandom"
 version = "11.1.2"
@@ -2374,6 +2495,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "parse-zoneinfo"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c705f256449c60da65e11ff6626e0c16a0a0b96aaa348de61376b249bc340f41"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pem"
 version = "0.8.1"
@@ -2440,6 +2570,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phonenumber"
+version = "0.2.4+8.11.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "207b3a8b4b30da166f6d8175ad39b86aa84d190965be4533af3d5541754de358"
+dependencies = [
+ "bincode",
+ "either",
+ "failure",
+ "fnv",
+ "itertools 0.8.2",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "nom 5.1.2",
+ "quick-xml 0.17.2",
+ "regex",
+ "regex-cache",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_derive",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project"
 version = "0.4.25"
@@ -2600,6 +2750,15 @@ version = "1.2.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a1d01941d82fa2ab50be1e79e6714289dd7cde78eba4c074bc5a4374f650dfe0"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "quick-xml"
+version = "0.17.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fe1e430bdcf30c9fdc25053b9c459bb1a4672af4617b6c783d7d91dc17c6bbb0"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quick-xml"
 version = "0.18.1"
@@ -2759,6 +2918,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-cache"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "32c86351f6af6bbf23b4c5f73ee4fdfe92d298fdf28572ea4f69494cabe38699"
+dependencies = [
+ "lru-cache",
+ "oncemutex",
+ "regex",
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-syntax"
 version = "0.6.18"
@@ -3137,7 +3308,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "692ca13de57ce0613a363c8c2f1de925adebc81b04c923ac60c5488bb44abe4b"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
- "num-bigint",
+ "num-bigint 0.2.6",
  "num-traits",
 ]
 
@@ -3617,6 +3788,37 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "validators"
+version = "0.20.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9af4acf80e223db35334bfb3b09421c54ed259ca203b5189177e61e3b9e1c2a3"
+dependencies = [
+ "debug-helper",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "num-traits",
+ "phonenumber",
+ "regex",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "vcard"
+version = "0.4.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c988b5461430fd8d078237c8a9436c8e2f810f944cba3086e3ce99cd54652caf"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64-stream",
+ "chrono",
+ "chrono-tz",
+ "idna",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "mime",
+ "mime_guess",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "regex",
+ "validators",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vcpkg"
 version = "0.2.10"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d1e739b69b..6cb6e79cf2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ url = "2.1.1"
 async-std-resolver = "0.19.5"
 async-tar = "0.3.0"
 uuid = { version = "0.8", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
+vcard = "0.4.6"
+ical = { version = "0.7.0", default-features = false, features = ["vcard"] }
 
 pretty_env_logger = { version = "0.4.0", optional = true }
 log = {version = "0.4.8", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/mimefactory.rs b/src/mimefactory.rs
index 9e18696c78..1470fafed5 100644
--- a/src/mimefactory.rs
+++ b/src/mimefactory.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 use chrono::TimeZone;
 use lettre_email::{mime, Address, Header, MimeMultipartType, PartBuilder};
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use vcard::properties::Photo;
+use vcard::values::image_value::ImageValue;
+use vcard::{Set, VCard};
 
 use crate::blob::BlobObject;
 use crate::chat::{self, Chat};
@@ -991,13 +995,24 @@ impl<'a, 'b> MimeFactory<'a, 'b> {
 
         if self.attach_selfavatar {
             match context.get_config(Config::Selfavatar).await {
-                Some(path) => match build_selfavatar_file(context, &path) {
-                    Ok((part, filename)) => {
-                        parts.push(part);
-                        protected_headers.push(Header::new("Chat-User-Avatar".into(), filename))
-                    }
-                    Err(err) => warn!(context, "mimefactory: cannot attach selfavatar: {}", err),
-                },
+                Some(path) => {
+                    match build_selfavatar_file(context, &path) {
+                        Ok((part, filename)) => {
+                            parts.push(part);
+                            protected_headers.push(Header::new("Chat-User-Avatar".into(), filename))
+                        }
+                        Err(err) => {
+                            warn!(context, "mimefactory: cannot attach selfavatar: {}", err)
+                        }
+                    };
+
+                    match build_vcard_part(context, &path).await {
+                        Ok(part) => {
+                            parts.push(part);
+                        }
+                        Err(err) => warn!(context, "mimefactory: cannot build vCard: {}", err),
+                    };
+                }
                 None => protected_headers.push(Header::new("Chat-User-Avatar".into(), "0".into())),
             }
         }
@@ -1199,6 +1214,40 @@ async fn build_body_file(
     Ok((mail, filename_to_send))
 }
 
+async fn build_vcard_file(context: &Context, avatar_path: &str) -> Result<String, Error> {
+    let avatar_blob = BlobObject::from_path(context, avatar_path)?;
+
+    let displayname = context
+        .get_config(Config::Displayname)
+        .await
+        .unwrap_or_default();
+    let mut vcard = VCard::from_formatted_name_str(&displayname)?;
+    // TODO: add KIND:individual
+    let mut photos = HashSet::new();
+    if let Ok(image_value) = ImageValue::from_file(avatar_blob.to_abs_path()) {
+        let photo = Photo::from_image_value(image_value);
+        photos.insert(photo);
+    }
+    vcard.photos = Set::from_hash_set(photos).ok();
+    Ok(vcard.to_string())
+}
+
+async fn build_vcard_part(context: &Context, avatar_path: &str) -> Result<PartBuilder, Error> {
+    let body = build_vcard_file(context, avatar_path).await?;
+    let encoded_body = wrapped_base64_encode(&body.as_bytes());
+
+    let part = PartBuilder::new()
+        .content_type(&mime::TEXT_VCARD)
+        .header((
+            "Content-Disposition",
+            "attachment; filename=\"{avatar.vcf}\"",
+        ))
+        .header(("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "base64"))
+        .body(encoded_body);
+
+    Ok(part)
+}
+
 fn build_selfavatar_file(context: &Context, path: &str) -> Result<(PartBuilder, String), Error> {
     let blob = BlobObject::from_path(context, path)?;
     let filename_to_send = match blob.suffix() {
diff --git a/src/mimeparser.rs b/src/mimeparser.rs
index 07aa0c34d4..7d42fe92f4 100644
--- a/src/mimeparser.rs
+++ b/src/mimeparser.rs
@@ -814,6 +814,26 @@ impl MimeMessage {
                 return;
             }
         }
+
+        if mime_type.type_() == "text/x-vcard"
+            || mime_type.type_() == "text/vcard"
+            || filename.ends_with(".vcf")
+            || filename.ends_with(".vcard")
+        {
+            println!("Parsing vcard {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(decoded_data));
+            for contact in ical::VcardParser::new(decoded_data) {
+                println!("Parsing contact {:?}", contact);
+                if let Ok(contact) = contact {
+                    for property in contact.properties {
+                        println!("Parsed property {:?}", property);
+                        if property.name == "email" {
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+
         /* we have a regular file attachment,
         write decoded data to new blob object */
 
@@ -1632,6 +1652,22 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(mimeparser.group_avatar, None);
     }
 
+    #[async_std::test]
+    async fn test_mimeparser_with_vcard() {
+        let t = TestContext::new().await;
+
+        let raw = include_bytes!("../test-data/message/vcard.eml");
+        let mimeparser = MimeMessage::from_bytes(&t.ctx, &raw[..]).await.unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(mimeparser.parts.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(mimeparser.parts[0].typ, Viewtype::Text);
+        assert_eq!(
+            mimeparser.parts[0].msg,
+            "vCard example – An example of vCard sent from Thunderbird."
+        );
+        assert_eq!(mimeparser.user_avatar, None);
+        assert_eq!(mimeparser.group_avatar, None);
+    }
+
     #[async_std::test]
     async fn test_mimeparser_message_kml() {
         let context = TestContext::new().await;
diff --git a/test-data/message/vcard.eml b/test-data/message/vcard.eml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7fb9ea390f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-data/message/vcard.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Return-Path: <alice@example.org>
+Delivered-To: bob@example.org
+To: bob@example.org
+From: Alice <alice@example.org>
+Subject: vCard example
+Message-ID: <foobar@example.org>
+Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:44:00 +0000
+User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
+ Thunderbird/78.4.3
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
+ boundary="------------01973B3475205164D5F9F507"
+Content-Language: en-US
+
+This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
+--------------01973B3475205164D5F9F507
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+
+An example of vCard sent from Thunderbird.
+
+--------------01973B3475205164D5F9F507
+Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8;
+ name="alice.vcf"
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+Content-Disposition: attachment;
+ filename="alice.vcf"
+
+begin:vcard
+fn:Alice Foobar
+n:Foobar;Alice
+email;internet:alice@example.org
+x-mozilla-html:FALSE
+version:2.1
+end:vcard
+
+
+--------------01973B3475205164D5F9F507--