Going GUI...er

[Akkana Peck]

Felix Finch writes:
> On 20200405, Sam Kuper wrote:
> > In the meantime, you can just reply to the message (which, after all,
> > was sent as an email):  "Thanks, I accept your invitation to the meeting
> > at 5pm PDT on 5th May 2020."
> 
> Now that's an idea I hadn't considered!  I was thinking more about the calendar program keeping tabs on who had accepted or not.  But you're right, no need to emulate that.  Just reply to the human.

Aside from the question of how to reply to calendar invites, my
problem is seeing them in the first place. I don't get calendar
attachments often, but when I do, I never know they're there.
This happens for two reasons:

1. Mutt shows attachments at the bottom of a message, which was
reasonable in the days before everyone top-posted; but now I never
get anywhere near the end of a message, so if there's an image or
a calendar invite attached, I never find out. (For images I find out
later when people reply "Wow, amazing photo!" after I've already
deleted the original message.)

2. Calendar invites are often part of a MIME multipart/alternative:

  I     1 <no description>                      [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 17K]
  I     2 ├─><no description>            [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0.4K]
  I     3 ├─><no description>             [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 1.0K]
  I     4 └─><no description>               [text/calendar, base64, utf-8, 15K]

Mutt sensibly shows me the text/plain part, and I never know that
there's also a calendar attachment.  It seems broken that the
calendar attachment would be part of the multipart/alternative
when clearly you want to see both the text or HTML AND the calendar,
but that's Microsoft for you (the invites have headers like
"x-ms-exchange-calendar-series-instance-id:" so I'm guessing
it's Exchange doing this).

Is there any way to configure mutt to alert me at the top of the
message if there are any text/calendar or image/* attachments
anywhere in the message, even as part of a multipart/alternative?
I feel like I miss a lot in mail messages because mutt doesn't tell
me about attachments.

        ...Akkana