Automatically accept invitations in iCal?

Hi,
I'm running a MacMini as private fileserver in our family. I want to use iCal to collect dates and meetings of our family. Ical will then publish this calendar automatically on .mac so that we can see all dates from every pc or location.
I have set up a certain mail account that the MacMini uses. If my wife or I send an invitation from our Outlook at work to this mail account, the MacMini receives it automatically and puts it into iCal.
Now the missing piece: I want iCal to automatically accept those inivitations, so that the published calendar on .mac is uptodate without user interaction. Outlook offers such a feature, iCal not. So - is there any tool or hint to solve my problem?
Best regards from Germany,
Heiko

They sent an invitation through their meeting invite feature.
Meeting invitations to myself are fine. I believe this is an issue between Apple and Microsoft, though I'm not sure why this is an issue in the first place because both should be complying with the iCal standard (the meeting format standard, not Apple's program).

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