Calendar invitations do not format correctly

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Robert Judge

I experimented with sending an Outlook 2007 Calendar invitation to a couple
of my email addresses to check the formatting before using the feature.

The invitation appeared corrected in a GMAIL message. However, the same
invitation sent to a Comcast account essentially provided no information
about the calendar event. And the same invitation to a Yahoo account came
across as below, hardly what I would my invitee to see.

Must I prepare an item somehow or format the invitation so that it will
appear properly? If so, what do I need to do to send an Outlook 2007
Calendar item so that it will apprear correctly regardless of the kind of
email used by the person I am inviting?

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;[email protected];RSVP=TRUE:mailto:[email protected]
CLASS:pUBLIC
CREATED:20090404T214035Z
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, April 09\, 2009 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (GMT-05:00) E
astern Time (US & Canada).\nWhere: rsvp to peg or diana at 538-5023\n\n*~*
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n
DTEND:20090409T173000Z
DTSTAMP:20090404T214035Z
DTSTART:20090409T160000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20090404T214036Z
LOCATION:rsvp to peg or diana at 538-5023
ORGANIZER;CN="Bob Judge":mailto:[email protected]
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:party for judi barthelete time placeholder only - $
5 to money to jennifer
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000050581A59CC9CC901000000000000000
010000000694F807AD4B7C140ACB5459B5BC854A5
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//E
N">\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server ve
rsion 08.00.0681.000">\n<TITLE></TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n<!-- Converted f
rom text/rtf format -->\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calib
ri">When: Thursday\, April 09\, 2009 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern
Time (US &amp\; Canada).</FONT></SPAN></P>\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us
"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Where: rsvp to peg or diana at 538-5023</FONT></SPA
N></P>\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">*~*~*~*~*~*~*
~*~*~*</FONT></SPAN></P>\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LAN
G="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>\n\n</BODY>\n</HTML>
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:TENTATIVE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-ALLOWEXTERNCHECK:TRUE
X-MS-OLK-AUTOSTARTCHECK:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0
X-MS-OLK-SENDER;CN="Bob Judge":mailto:[email protected]
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:pT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

you need to send invites as icals, not Outlook's native vcal, but beyond
that, you can't control how other mail clients display the invitation. I
know yahoo will convert some attachments to text in the message body and it
looks like that is what happened here.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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