Outlook XP Calendar invites sending in Plain Text

[Markeau]

Two XPpro's each with Outlook XP. I used to be able to create a
Calendar item on one and send it to the other, and it was in the
proper format to be accepted and placed on the other calendar. But now
calendar invites are just being sent as Plain Text and cannot be
accepted ... within the Plain Text message appears to be in the proper
vcalendar format as shown below

Subject: Updated: Total Eclipse at 9:23

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:00:26 -0500

Message-ID: <000001c4bc89$83202580$0100a8c0@captain>

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;

charset="utf-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626

Importance: Normal

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
X-Loop-Detect:1

Status:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN="Mark HOME
([email protected])";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected]

ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected]

DTSTART:20041028T020000Z

DTEND:20041028T023000Z

TRANSP:TRANSPARENT

SEQUENCE:4
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000006EABE786BBC4010000000000000000100

00000D986966E42D7DC428F8EE1B3FD4AEC1B

DTSTAMP:20041028T010027Z

DESCRIPTION:When: Wednesday\, October 27\, 2004 9:00 PM-9:30 PM
(GMT-06:00)

Central Time (US & Canada).\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n

SUMMARY:Updated: Total Eclipse at 9:23

PRIORITY:5

CLASSUBLIC

BEGIN:VALARM

TRIGGERT0M

ACTIONISPLAY

DESCRIPTION:Reminder

END:VALARM

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try setting the recipient's address for rich-text format.

 

[Markeau]

What is odd is that some invites are sent properly and others are not.
A bit more testing (but not exhaustive) reveals that if I leave my
default reminder of 1hr and marked as busy the invite will be sent
properly and may be accepted, but if I change the reminder and/or the
busy to say free it is not sent properly.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Could you provide exact steps to reproduce this issue, including the Outlook
version?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Markeau]

Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6714) SP3

- In calendar, go to some later time of today (ie, it's 5:50pm now, I
choose 10pm) and double click
- Invite another O2002 user (not on exchange)or send to yourself
- Subject: 9:23 moon eclipse
- Reminder ON set to 0 minutes
- Show time as Free
- Send
- email arrives in plain text, cannot be accepted


Now do the same as above, except:
- Subject: test
- Leave Reminder On and set to 1hr (that's my default)
- Leave time as Busy
- Send
- email arrives as invitation that may be accepted