Converting an email to calendar apointment

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RHamada - 14 Jul 2006 14:21 GMT

Hi all,

I have an application that send emails for my customers, but I would
like to send emails for Outlook to understand as a calendar apointment.
Somebody know how can I format the email?

Thanks in advance

RHamada

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 14:26 GMT

Use the iCalendar standard; see http://www.imc.org/pdi/

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RHamada - 14 Jul 2006 15:12 GMT

But I'd like to know the format of the email to send to outlook.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 15:30 GMT

And that's what I answered: iCalendar is the format you need to use. It is the one and only specification for Internet exchange of calendar information.

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> But I'd like to know the format of the email to send to outlook.
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RHamada - 14 Jul 2006 18:52 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to understand this.
Do you have an example?

Thanks

RHamada

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 19:24 GMT

Search on any search engine for your preferred programming language and "iCalendar." Or, use Outlook to send a meeting request to any account you can read and see the full raw message content so you can get a full iCalendar message item to dissect.

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RHamada - 14 Jul 2006 20:05 GMT

Hi,

How can I read the full raw message content in outlook?

Thanks

> Search on any search engine for your preferred programming language and "iCalendar." Or, use Outlook to send a meeting request to any account you can read and see the full raw message content so you can get a full iCalendar message item to dissect.
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 20:24 GMT

You can't. You need to use Outlook Express or Gmail or some other mailer.

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RHamada - 14 Jul 2006 20:50 GMT

Hi,

I sent to my Gmail account.
I received an attached file: winmail.dat
This file has encripted information that I cannot read.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 20:58 GMT

Tools | Options | Calendar Options | When sending meeting requests over the Internet ...

If that option is grayed out, either add a POP3 account to your mail profile or create a new profile for testing with just a POP3 account in it.

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RHamada - 14 Jul 2006 19:38 GMT

Hi,

I did the vcs file.
What I have to do now?
I tried to send as an attachment, but I received as an attachment,
and not like a calendar appointment.
I would like to receive like a calendar appointment. It is
possible?

Thanks.
RHamada

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 19:51 GMT

Sounds like you didn't understand my response at all: "Use Outlook to send a meeting request to any account you can read and see the full raw message content so you can get a full iCalendar message item to dissect." Look at the raw message to see what a meeting request looks like. To create such message you need to use the features in your programming language to create a similar multipart MIME message. Consult your programming environment documentation or do as I suggested and search.

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