Why are my meeting emails garbled and have no polling buttons??

[brum04]

My Office uses office 2000 and office 2003, some meeting emails come through
fine with polling buttons, others come through garbled with no polling
buttons..
not using exchange, just corp email server...

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There is a known incompatiblity between Outlook 2000 and later versions
related to reminders on meeting requests sent in iCalendar (aka iCal)
format. To resolve this issue, do one of the following:

-- Contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the Outlook 2000
post-SP3 hotfix described in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823199

-- Tell the senders to remove any reminder before sending you an iCal
meeting request.

-- Tell the senders to send to you in native Outlook meeting request (RTF)
format, not as iCal.