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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Calendaring / May 2006sent appointments are received as gibberish email
When I send a meeting request or appointment the attendees have noted that it does not appear in their calendar and all they get is an email with a lot of gibberish in it. As the sender I get a clear entry in my calendar. Anyone come across this or how to solve it ? was working ok last month regards I What they're getting is probably an iCalendar item that their software can't process. What mail program are they using?  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > When I send a meeting request or appointment the attendees have noted > that it does not appear in their calendar and all they get is an email [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > regards > I They are using outlook also: this is the sort of gibberish BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN="Ken Strange";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:ken@xxxxxxx ORGANIZER:MAILTO:ian@xxxxxxxx DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060512 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060513 LOCATION:home TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000D040C42AA470C6010000000000000000100 00000358E80C44432AB42888930D646D4AC71 DTSTAMP:20060505T232942Z DESCRIPTION:When: 12 May 2006 00:00 to 13 May 2006 00:00 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin\, Edinburgh\, Lisbon\, London.\nWhere: home\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n SUMMARY:Week 18:xxxx PRIORITY:5 CLASS:PUBLIC BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT1080M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR It's not gibberish. It's an iCalendar/vCalendar item. You didn't say what version of Outlook they're using. It matters. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > They are using outlook also: this is the sort of gibberish > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > END:VEVENT > END:VCALENDAR > It's not gibberish. It's an iCalendar/vCalendar item. > > You didn't say what version of Outlook they're using. It matters. for me outlook 2002: (10.6515,6735) SP3 for them according to headers X-Mailer Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) But they say was working ok a few weeks ago, so sounds like a problem my end not theirs Also tried sending to dummy person in my domain and saw the same result Ian 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. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > >> It's not gibberish. It's an iCalendar/vCalendar item. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Ian We are having this same issue, but sender and receiver are both using Outlook 2002 SP3, same office, same mailserver, same network. The meeting request/appointment will go out to several people- most get it correctly a few don't. All machines have all windows and office updates available. I have done detect/repair, re-intall of office all to no advail. Please don't recomend the sender change to vCalendar format or rich text, because of various senders that is just not a good resolution. I would like to be able to fix the issue on the receiver's machine. Any help would be appreciated. > 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: > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > > Ian We also are still are having the problem, at the receiver's end. BUT this was working ok a few weeks back Asked the receiver to send a dummy appointment and this drops into my calendar ok So it *must* be something at my end But I know not what .. any help ? much appreciated > We are having this same issue, but sender and receiver are both using > Outlook 2002 SP3, same office, same mailserver, same network. The
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