I am trying send a calendar item via email to an Outlook user. The goal is that the user receives the email and it automatically asks them to ACCEPT / DECLINE the calendar item. I am using MIME::Lite and and sending a .ics file as an attachment to the email. Here is an example of the text sent: BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Appointment tomorrow DTSTAMP:20090327T102202Z DTSTART:20090328T200002Z DTEND:20090328T203002Z LOCATION:USOC Scheduling System PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Appt TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:someone.nice END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR The mime type for this attachment is text/calendar and is, as I said before, attached as a .ics file. In Outlook 2002, when I receive the email, I can click on the attachment to open it in the calendar. But on a Blackberry, this isn't possible to do in Outlook 2003, so I am told. I want it to prompt with ACCEPT / DECLINE. Does anyone know how to make this magic happen? Thanks! David

In reply to Sending a calendar item to Outlook as a .ics file by sftriman

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