I'm sure everyone knows this by now, but I am submitting it because I've not see anything about it on the web. Last night, I received an email with an.ics file attached, and Mail identified it as an iCal file, so I opened it and all of a sudden, there's a new event in iCal. So I asked the sender if he was using iCal and he said no, it was Outlook. Apparently Mail takes Outlook meeting requests and converts them to iCal events. robg adds: I think this is relatively new behavior. I tested from my work Outlook account to my home email, and sure enough, double-clicking the.ics attachment in Mail opened iCal.
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ICal popped up an Accept/Decline dialog box, which included the requester's name, meeting name and time, and asking which calendar I'd like to add the event to. I declined the event, and was surprised to see that I was then offered the ability to send the decline notice to the originator. This is new as of 10.3. Before that, Outlook meeting requests came through in the text of the message, so you could save them, strip out the email headers, and then double-click them. Now, at least, we don't have to take the extra steps.
There is one problem, though, if you're syncing with a Palm. The Timezone is set in the Outlook.ics file in a format that iCal doesn't recognize, so, when you sync with your Palm, everything is off by 8 hours or so. You need to confirm the timezone of any items put in your calendar from Outlook.ics files. 'Unfortunately, I haven't figure out an easy way to invite 'the infidels' (people using Outlook) from iCal without getting my Ph.D. In Unix' The last time I looked into this, Outlook specifically checked for a Microsoft-specific tag in the header of the email.
If the tag was there, Outlook processed the calendar information. If the tag was not there the information was ignored.
My reaction was 'typical MS behaviour'. I no longer need to work with Outlook, so I've lost track if this is still the case. I have a similar problem but it manifests itself a little differently: when I accept an Outlook and agree to the email notification, iCal sends out two email messages-one to the invitor (e.g., [email protected]) and a second one to an address it somehow creates on its own- [email protected]. I actually had a recipient from the web somewhere write me to complain that he keeps getting my confirmations because his email address happens to be (for example) [email protected]. I remember someone posting a fix awhile ago.
It involved changing the iCal email script, but I've misplaced it. Ok, after reading this thread I went and had a play. I'm using 10.28 so they maybe some differences. All you have to do to send an Invite from iCal is create your event. Once done and all you info is set, select your event and go to the Attendees in the info side bar and type the email address into the None field. Your will notice it will then offer you possible address as you type.
Add all the names you want. Now click the attendees button to send invite. Just to Note in 10.2.8 to get an invite, I sent one to myself by logging on to my Works mail and sending me one. In 10.2.8 this arrived as text within the email, even though the Attachment Icon say's there is an Attachment, There is not. So I copied the text from BEGIN:VCALENDAR to END:VCALENDAR and saved it in a text file with the extension.ics. Double clicked this and up pops iCal with the do you or don't you want to accept.
That all worked ok apart from the accept email bounced back (will try and find what the problem is) - mh. Ok, my own sends from iCal was also getting bounced back. It seems in 10.2.8 at least, iCal screws up the address by adding characters to the address.
If this happens to you, This is an easy fix. Before you hit the send invite, click each attendees address and select to edit it. Take out any characters not part of the address and once you have done them all send them. Also when I send myself an invite from iCal it arrives as an Attachment. The problem I had with sending an acceptance when I got an invite from Outlook, seems to be a similar issue.
The only way so far to solve this is to just send it let it bounce back and then copy the bounced back attachment and acceptance message, and past it in to a new email to the attendee. The problem I had with sending an acceptance when I got an invite from Outlook, seems to be a similar issue.
The only way so far to solve this is to just send it let it bounce back and then copy the bounced back attachment and acceptance message, and past it in to a new email to the attendeeThe answer was when I copied and pasted the text from the email. I did not notice that the mail address had been truncated.so iCal would only see half of the email address. So now all I need to do to avoid this is to make sure the address is all together befor I save the file down.
I predict this thread will swell nicely. I work in a small office with about a third of us using 10.3, the rest on Windows. Management has recently caught Outlook scheduling fever, and we're coping.
With mail.app and iCal, I seem to be able to click.ics attachments and agree to meetings, HOWEVER, i am at a loss for how to successfully handle updates sent from Outlook. Everytime I click on an updated.ics attachment, i get no response from iCal and usually have to manually comb through the text of that attachment to find the START and END times.
I've looked at Snerdware, but I'm not sure it can fix the issue. Does this funcionality depend on the version of Exchange server that's being used?
I didn't get an attachment at all just this message. When: Friday, August 06, 2004 09:00-09:30 (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada). Where: Steffan's Office.
If I view the Raw Source (I paste part of the text here) it gives the Exchange server version as 5.5.2653.12. This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.=NextPart00101C47B7B.217F4800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset='iso-8859-1' When: Friday, August 06, 2004 09:00-09:30 (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada). Where: Numpty's Office.=NextPart00101C47B7B.217F4800 Content-Type: text/html; charset='iso-8859-1'
I have the same behaviour i.e. Text only invitation with no.ics attachment and no BEGIN:VCALENDAR to END:VCALENDAR, and I'm using OS X 10.3.4 mail.app on the same exchange server version as Steffan.
Could be something there. Header snip: code Kick Off Meeting for foo bar /code body of message looks like: When: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana. Where: Meeting Room. After reading this, I fooled around in meetingmaker and set up a meeting with myself as an external invitee (outside the meetingmaker environment). Sure enough, I received an email with an.ics file attached, that opened in iCal to create a new event in my calendar! Good news, it seemed. However, when I asked our meeting coordinator (who uses a Windows PC) to try this, an email came, but without the.ics attachment.
The only thing I can conclude is that the meetingmaker Mac client sends this out, but that other meetingmaker clients do not. I'd been hoping that the server somehow sent something that was recognized as a meeting record by Mail.app.
That was fun while it lasted, I guess. TomEM Crofton, MD.
Found this @ For what it's worth, I started having a similar issue recently and came across this thread while researching the solution. My wife has an iPhone, I'm Android, and she routinely sends calendar invites to me. We just realized that I've recently stopped getting those invites to my Gmail account, even though she's still adding me the same way she always has. It turns out that since my iCloud account is setup with my Gmail address, iCloud has started to 'intercept' those invites from her iPhone. Instead of going to my email account, they're being automatically added to my iCalendar.
This can be disabled by:. Logging in at. Go to Calendar - (Cog) - Preference - Advanced. Beside 'Invitations' select Email To (Use this option if your primary calendar is not iCloud). This may solve your problem if:.
Someone with an iDevice is sending your the invite. You have an iCloud account. Ok we have found a possible answer to this issue:. If you are using any other mail address other than icloud.com as your apple id all your invitation is being redirected to your icloud calendar.
If you do not sync your icloud calendar then you will remain unaware of the invitation. You can correct this by logging in to iCloud, accessing the calendar preferences and going to the advance tab and tick the bottom box to not use in app serviced but to send mail to your primary address Please can someone force Apple to make this a default setting as the world is not on iCloud yet. Seems to be new iCloud accounts, that hasn't assigned with phone number can't send invites, but can accept them. I've just created new iCloud (with gmail email) account, logon on the iPhone w/o SIM and no one invite was send to contacts.
I've tried: phone numbers, different email addresses, via iPhone / iCloud.com, and get no inapp invite, no email. At the same time, I've received invitations in this account. Probably, Apple denying sending invites from unphoned accounts to reduce calendar spam. But nothing that said in KB.