Emailing ical events.

When I attempt to email an event to someone, it sends a file, but when someone tries to open the attached file they get the message "the calendar file is empty. No new events have been added to your ical calendars."
I have searched the forums for the last 40 minutes or so, and google as well and have been unable to find any reference to the problem. Any help would be useful. I am able to receive ical files and add them with no problem, but unable to generate the same sort of file.

Welcome to the discussions, savvytwh.
The simplest way to check what is being sent by iCal is to disconnect your computer from the network. Make an event in iCal. Add a contact as an attendee and click the send button at the bottom of the event information pane. the Mail icon will start leppin' about in the dock, to tell you that it can't send the message. Now in Mail you can look at the message sitting in the outbox and check that there is a clickable ics link at the bottom (but don't click it). If you want to see everything use View/Message/Raw Source and you will also see the contents of the invitation.
How your neighbour receives it is dependent on her mail client.
AK

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This topic was discussed here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1029973&#1029973
but is archived and not accepting replies, hence the re-post.
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