ICal Calendar Invite

I'm using iCal to send appointment emails and am having trouble with them. I have multiple accounts set up on my iMac and sometimes my email comes from my work email (that's the preference) and sometimes they come from my personal account. How do i make the work email, the default? I also can't seem to track the accept or declines.

Hi kbglaze4,
I know your pain. I've created an iCal plug-in called Zamain for Mac to resolve iCal-to-Outlook compatibility issues, but one of it's features might help you out:
* Supports sending Apple iCal invitations from multiple Apple Mail email accounts
When you send an invitation, Zamain for Mac will intercept the invitation and prompt you to select the account that you want to send from. That account will automatically be used as the the reply-to address as well. You can learn more about the software here: http://www.zamain.com.
Good luck!
- Jon
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Hello again,
False alarm..... it didnt work sorry.
I removed the iCal accounts from my mac, and also from my iphone. Then when my partner sent me a calendar invite it simply didnt arrive at all!
She has a hotmail account installed on her IOS iphone 5.
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My exch 2013 email is installed in both my Outlook for mac 2011 and IOS device Iphone 5s.
When I switch the iCloud Calendar back on in my iphone 5s, the invite comes through but ONLY optional to the icloud calendar. I cannot seem to get it receiving on my default calendar which is set to Exchange 2013 account.
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