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Adam Libuša
Adam Libuša

Reputation: 735

Outlook doesn't send answer to event invitation via iCal

I am trying to send an invitation to an event in form of an iCal email attachment. I'm testing it with 3 clients: Zimbra, Gmail and Outlook. All three interpret the attachment correctly: They show the respective RSVP buttons (Accept/Tentative/Decline). However, after pressing the button, only Zimbra sends an email with an iCal file containing the answer. Gmail and Outlook don't.

Is this a normal behavior, or am I doing something wrong? I would expect the clients to send an email with an answer. Saving the data only to a local calendar doesn't make much sense to me.

Example of the iCal I am sending:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//Calendar APP
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20180424T084322Z
DTSTART:20180424T000000
DTEND:20180424T235959
SUMMARY:e107
TZID:Europe/Vienna
LOCATION:Besprechungsraum 1
SEQUENCE:0
ORGANIZER:mailto:[email protected]
UID:20180424T084322Z-confId=795:timeTableId=18997@fe80:0:0:0:e73:2050:cc3
 d:6035%utun0
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN=;PARTSTAT=NEEDS_ACTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:
 [email protected]
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN=;PARTSTAT=NEEDS_ACTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:
 [email protected]
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 425

Answers (1)

Keyton Weissinger
Keyton Weissinger

Reputation: 313

Not sure you're still looking for an answer on this but I do know (from learning the hard way) that if you send your test message from a gmail account but are answering on behalf of a DIFFERENT gmail account, then gmail will not send back a response. So if you're using testacct1@gmail to send a recipient (testacct2@gmail) on behalf of a THIRD acct (testacct3@gmail) gmail will not send the reply. Google checks the sender against the invitee. If they don't match, you will not get a response.

Upvotes: 1

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