Working with IMAP and iCalendar

How can you access group calendar information if your Exchange-like mail and calendaring server does not provide iCalendar feeds, and you do not, or cannot, use Outlook? Use Python to extract the calendar data and generate your own feed, of course! This article discusses a surprisingly simple program to perform what seems like a complex series of operations: scanning IMAP folders, extracting iCalendar attachments, and merging the contained events together into a single calendar.

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This article was originally published by Python Magazine in October of 2007.