Meeting Invitations to iCal Users

[Mike_N]

I've had different results inviting others to a meeting. Invitation recipients who are Outlook users get the invitation and can reply just fine. Recipients who are iCal users (as in Mac's iCal program which complies with the industry standard iCal forum) get an email that has the details of the meeting embedded into it but do not have the ability to add it to their calendar or accept/decline the email.

If you know of a fix I'd be grateful.

 

[Mu Zhang[MSFT]]

What account are these iCal recipients using? And could you explain how
iCal receives email and connect to the calendar?

Thanks
Mu

I've had different results inviting others to a meeting. Invitation recipients
who are Outlook users get the invitation and can reply just fine. Recipients
who are iCal users (as in Mac's iCal program which complies with the industry
standard iCal forum) get an email that has the details of the meeting embedded
into it but do not have the ability to add it to their calendar or
accept/decline the email.

If you know of a fix I'd be grateful.

--
Mu Zhang
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit


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[Mike_N]

iCal users are using a POP account.

This is how it should work (and does with iCal standard programs) ... Mail (Mac's email program) receives an email with iCal (the calendar standard) attachment. The recipient can reply to the invitation via Mail or iCal (Mac's calendar program) accept or reject buttons.

This is how it works when getting an invite from Entourage or Outlook ... Mail (Mac's email program) receives an email without the iCal attachment and instead embeds some of the meeting details in the email message. No accept/reject buttons are present.

Best regards,
Mike