ICal appointments and invites

I am using iCal for booking appointments, when I book the original appointment it sends an invite to the invitee. If I then move the appointment it doesn't send a notification of the change.
How do you get it to send the change

anyone ??

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ICal, Entourage and Invitations from Lotus Notes

I am in a small office where we run mostly Macs. I use Entourage 11.2.4 for my work email, and run Mail for a personal email account. I primarily use Entourage for calendaring, but I have it set up to sync with iCal largely just because I can.
Lately I have been receiving meeting invites from a user in a large company; the invites are generated in Lotus Notes.
The invite appears as a .ics file in Entourage (although oddly enough it appears as a .vcs file in my Treo 650 which I also use to receive email).
If I double-click on the invite in Entourage, it opens up in iCal. The problem there is that if I want to reply to the invite, it will launch Mail and -- therefore -- use my personal email account to reply to the invite. Which I do not want to do. I don't think there is any way I can get iCal to invoke Entourage as the email client for responding to an iCal invite (but if anybody knows one I'd be grateful for a hint).
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PowerBook G4 (1GB RAM); iMac Intel Core Duo (2GB RAM) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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http://www.icalshare.com/links.php
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http://www.zapptek.com/ical-mail/
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ICal publishing and invite

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ICal, iCloud, and meeting invitation woes

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On the software side, however, I'm struggling with the migration. I've solved most of my issues, but one is really eluding me. I have Office 2011, including Outlook, but I keep being told by Mac users that Outlook on the Mac is buggy and is inferior to using iCal, Apple Mail, and Address Book. Ok, I'll bite. I've been trying to use these tools as my primary means for handling my mail and calendar needs. This is where I run into trouble.
My world of data, like most people's, is split into two: work and personal. For personal, I primarly use google tools including google calendar and gmail. For work, I have an IMAP mail system with a work e-mail account, but we have no work-based calendar server. I have an iPad2 and an iPhone4. This is all relevant because what I want is to have mail and events, both work and personal, synchronized and accessible across all my devices over "the cloud." The personal side is easy enough to handle. I added my google calendar to iCal, just like I added it on my phone and iPad, so no worries there. E-mail, similarly, is simple enough. The issue is when I try to figure out how to handle my work calendar.
My first thought was iCloud - but my Apple ID, used by iCloud is based on my personal e-mail account (gmail). I've found that when I try to add an event to my iCloud "work" calendar in iCal and invite attendees (a very very common practice in my business world), the invitation comes from my gmail account and my gmail account is listed as the organizer of the event. This is a huge problem for me. In searching online, people suggest all sorts of different ways of solving this. Re-ordering the e-mail addresses on the "Me" contact card in Address Book. Re-ordering the accounts in Mail. I even went as far as deleting my gmail account from both Mail and Address Book. Nothing works. I'm assuming that because the event is created in iCloud, that the organizer is set to the Apple ID that is associated with the iCloud account, and there seems to be nothing I can do about that.
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Hello there.
Exact same situation here. Do you have a solution yet? Also for me its not acceptable to send meeting invitations from my personal account which is also my apple id...

ICal server and external invitations via 3rd party mail server

Hi everyone,
OS 10.6.5 Server:
Services running
AFP
DNS
iCal
Open Directory
Push Notification
We are currently testing iCal server and have configured it to send out invites via our mail server (which is running on a different server) by creating the com.apple.calendarserver user on our mail server.
Email notifications are then configured under the Enable Email Invitations tab in the iCal service of Server Admin as follows:
IMAP
Email address: [email protected]
Incoming server: mail.mytest.com
Port: 143 (not using SSL)
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: secret
SMTP: mail.mytest.com
Port: 25 (not using SSL)
Server requires authentication
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: secret
My test OD users are able to send out invites both internally to other iCal users and externally via email.
So for example, I invite someone to a meeting and enter their gmail address ([email protected]), the invitation goes out correctly - when I log into gmail I see the invitation.
When responding to the invitation (clicking Yes), the mail server receives the response from gmail and the iCal server collects the message via IMAP.
However, the iCal server doesn't seem to parse the received email correctly as I get the following error in the iCal error logs:
[twistedcaldav.extensions#info] Cannot authenticate proxy user 'com.apple.calendarserver' without X-Authorize-As header
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.mail#error] Mail gateway failed to inject message <[email protected]> (Reason: 400 Bad Request)
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.mail#debug] Failed calendar body: BEGIN:VCALENDAR
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] VERSION:2.0
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] METHOD:REPLY
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] BEGIN:VEVENT
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] UID:43121576-1183-40C8-82D8-A052754AD1CE
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTSTART:20110406T080000Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTEND:20110406T090000Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] ATTENDEE;[email protected];CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=DECLINED;RO
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:[email protected]
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] CREATED:20110303T062518Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DESCRIPTION:
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTSTAMP:20110303T064335Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LAST-MODIFIED:20110303T064335Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LOCATION:
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] ORGANIZER;CN=com.apple.calendarserver+07b1c044-9d98-4cdc-afe3-48139218ee35
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] @mytest.com:urn:uuid:B72794FB-3242-48D7-AC22-A584D279B9F9
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] SEQUENCE:3
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] STATUS:CONFIRMED
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] SUMMARY:one more test
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] TRANSP:OPAQUE
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] END:VEVENT
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] END:VCALENDAR
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway]
I have set a rule on our mail server to bypass any spam filtering for all messages sent to the [email protected] address, but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
Does anyone else have this working ? Any ideas ?
Many thanks
Message was edited by: gen_bunty
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The issue is not "user authorization". The issue is that the 3rd-party service does not accept all incoming relay requests unless there is authentication with a registered account (which we have). This protects the 3rd-party service from becoming the relaying host for the universe's spoofed and anonymous spam. My deduction is that there is no mechanism in UTL_MAIL to designate not only the 3rd-party ip-address:port (by-passing the local sendmail server) but also providing the username:password for the account there for authentication.
Plan A: I have attempted to follow directions for client-side SMTP Authentication for Relaying on the sendmail.org site.
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ICal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working

iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
Set the iCal server email to access the same email using the following settings:
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SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
Login
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send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
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Testing iCal:
I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
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iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
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IMAP
SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
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User & Pwd
To test the settings:
send out a test email from Apple Mail to a non-server email address that you can access to check it has been received;
send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
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Testing iCal:
I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
Anatole
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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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