vcalendar meeting notice from outlook unreadable or garbled in outlook express

[Brian Murphy]

I get meeting notices sent to from others using outlook calendar
features, but they are not readable on my computer where I use outlook
express 6.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

My settings for plain text and HTML email don't have an affect on
this.

Thanks,

Brian Murphy

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Are you referring to an HTML-formatted email and an ICS attachment? If so,
is the message and/or the attachment unreadable?

> My settings for plain text and HTML email don't have an affect on
> this.

No, they wouldn't. If the Outlook users send such messages to you using
Plain Text formatting, does the behavior persist?
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[Michael Santovec]

If they are sending you VCS (vCalendar) attachments, OE wouldn't know
what to do with them.

Besides Office Outlook program, the Microsoft Works program can read VCS
attachments.

Or you can open a VCS file in Notepad. It is a text file.

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[Brian Murphy]

Thank you for the reply.

Saving the email to a file and opening in Notepad looks the same as
what I see in OE.

OE seems to be confused about if there is an attachment. There a
paperclip icon indicator in the "Attachment" column, but not in the
preview panel or in the email's own display window.

Here is what is at the top of the email:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;CN="Brian Murphy
(b.mu...@mail.utexas.edu)";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:b.mu
rp...@mail.utexas.edu

I will ask the sender if he can send it as "plain text", but I'm
amazed that Outlook would send out emails that cannot be read by
recipients using OE.

Thanks,

Brian

[Michael Santovec]

See this article for a sample of a vCalendar file

How to use vCalendar in Outlook 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=197025

I would have expected some additional fields with the start and end
date/time and location of the event.

Outlook has a number of incompatibilities with OE, even though they are
from the same company. The Outlook default format of RTF puts
attachments in a WINMAIL.DAT attachment which is unreadable by OE. In
this case, Microsoft has go to the trouble of putting code in OE to make
the WINMAIL.DAT attachments invisible so it looks like in OE that the
attachment never arrived.

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm#ms-tnef

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