Mime-attachment.ics acceptance...!!!...???

How in the world can an iphone user see or accept an outlook calendar invite? Everytime anyone from my windows office sends me a Microsoft Office Outlook calendar invite it shows up as a "mime-attachment.ics"... All I can do from my iphone i see the file but I'm unable to open it or even have the option of accepting or declining the Outlook invite...!
I've really tried to look within the support nd forums but only eem to find scant info. on the subject. Not even AT&T nor Apple phone support can help.They just keep repeating the same thing... if the file is not in the apple acceptable format, the iphone can't see it nor open it nor deal with it.
So is it true? If I get an outlook email calendar invite then I'm screwed!?

Outlook does allow for the outlook calendar invite to be forwarded as an iCalendar. Yet when it is sent it is still sent as a '.ICS' attachment.
That's because .ics, .ical, .icalendar are all the same:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
About all you can do is hope Apple implements support for handoff of .ics attachments from Mail to Calendar on the iPhone. You can certainly express your desire for that:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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Mime-attachment.ics - can read message on iphone but not on PC

Someone has replied to an Outlook meeting request with a message that I can read on my iphone but the message doesn't appear on my PC. I assume it has something to do with the format of the message (being mime-attachment.ics) and that my PC doesn't recognise that format but I would like to know how I can fix this. Any help would be much appreciated - thanks!

If the bubble was green, the message must have gone by SMS. Macs have no direct SMS capability.
That other person either does not have an Apple iPhone, has chosen not to register the phone number with iMessage, or did not have an internet connection active at the time of your experiments.
There are services that claim to allow non-SMS devices to send SMS messages. I've never tried any of them, so I don't know how well (or even if) any of them might work.

TS1702 mime-attachment.ics problem

When I'm sent a calendar entry (appointment) from a colleagues pc using Outlook it arrives as a mime-attachment.ics. Until recently I could click the icon and it would register as an appointment on the iPhone calendar. For reasons that mystify me it doesn't do this now. Can anyone please tell me why, and what I can do to rectify this? Many thanks

Outlook does allow for the outlook calendar invite to be forwarded as an iCalendar. Yet when it is sent it is still sent as a '.ICS' attachment.
That's because .ics, .ical, .icalendar are all the same:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
About all you can do is hope Apple implements support for handoff of .ics attachments from Mail to Calendar on the iPhone. You can certainly express your desire for that:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Ios 7 cannot open mime-attachment.ics from outlook

I downloaded ios 7 the other day on my 4, and I cannot open my mime-attachment.ics from outlook. I have already deleted and reinstalled my mail account from which these files originate, without any success. Amy Ideas?

Hi all,
Same problem. None of the suggestions worked for me. Even the innovative work aroung by alstarck (in outlook uncheck ICalendar) is no good since i get ?????? in the mail header and when trying to create an event it creats it on current date and not in the intended date.
If this ICS business is not fixed soon I'm seriously considering dropping Iphone alltogether because this is the last strow, in addition to the very poor ICalendar-Outlook communication. It hurts my work.
Any Idea/knowledge/comfort?
Thanks

Can't open "mime-attachment.ics" file...

I have my emails forwarded to the email account I use on my iPhone. Everything comes across fine, except calendar invitations. These come across with an attached "mime-attachment.ics" file...I just want to open it so I can see the time being proposed... don't need it to update my calendar. Can't find an app that will open an .ics file... any suggestions?

tongadog is absolutely right. You cannot receive an email with an invitation and open the .ics attachment to see what you are invited to. Not only the iPhone email application should be able to understand the attachment and display the description of the calendar invitation, date, time, location and so on, but one should be able to tap on it and have the invitation sent to the calendar. This is very very obvious and basic requirement. If Apple wants the iPhone to live in the business environment this is a fundamental functionality. People in the Windows environment constantly sent these types of invitations and people with Blackberrys continuously laugh at me because I cannot see the content on my iPhone and I am lost as to when the next meeting is. Please Apple, this should be an easy one for you!!! By the way, it is not a 3.0 or 3.1 issue, it's always been like this, I've been suffering from this for a year and a half.

TS1347 ios 7: how can i open a mime-attachment.ics file?

since i installed ios7 on my iphone i can not open mime-attachment.ics (invitation sent from an outlook email) files in my calendar. does anyone know what i can do to open these files in my calendar?

All email attachments are encoded before being sent are encoded with MIME.
If your receive an email attachment that is not recognized by the computer or mobile device, that usually means there is not an application available on the computer or mobile device that is compatible with the attachment type.
For the iPhone's email client:
Viewable document types
.jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel); .zip; .ics

Calendar invite attached to email as mime-attachment.ics now does not open in ios 7.0.3

Calender invitations arriving as email attachments mime-attachment.ics were opening fine but since upgrading to 7.0.3 they do not open - how do I get this working?

Hi s.kouris,
I'm afraid that unless you are able to contact the previous owner and have him wipe the device, or provide you with his Apple ID password so you can delete the iCloud account, you are out of luck.
With iOS 7, an Activiation Lock was added to deter thieves. This lock prevents anyone but the owner of the device from deleting the iCloud account and restoring the device:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5818
Unless you are able to reach the original owner and get the device wiped or the iCloud account deleted, you are stuck with a brick.
Sorry,
GB

Mine attachment ics in iOS 8

Since uploading ios8 on my iPad, I can no longer open invitation attachments sent to me via outlook from within mail. When I click on the attachment (mime attachment.ics) to add to calendar, I am thrown out of mail.
Anyone one no of a cure?

Looks like Apple doesn't care who is using Microsoft Outlook with Exchange Server. (Iphone, Ipad is not for business anymore)
My ics calenders my office voice mail attachments are not working.
Why I should continue with this doesn't care company. (Apple)
I start not to care Apple anymore.
I am switching everyone in the office from Iphone to something else that will work.
I am throwing my Ipad and my iphone to garbage.
These devices are useless if you are using for the company.

How do I open a mime attachment on my iphone ?

How do I open a mime attachment on my iphone email?

You can't.
All attachments must be encoded before being sent and MIME 1.0 is the industry standard for message encoding.
When receiving a message with an attachment file type that cannot be recognized by the email client and/or by the computer/device used, MIME attachment will appear instead.
This can mean the attachment that was sent is a file type that cannot be accessed/viewed by the iPhone. I also see the same on occasion when a received message was forwarded by the sender and the message received by the sender contains an attachment that can be accessed/viewed by the iPhone but the original message that was forwarded was composed in HTML which can do screwy things with email on occasion - personally I wish HTML would be forbidden with the exchange of email - this along with forbidding the use of the AOL program to send email with attachments.

How do I delete an e.mail on my 5s that has a mime attachment,the e.mail can be read but not deleted.

How do I delete an e.mail on my 5s iphone that has a mime attachement? the e.mail can be read but not deleted. A message comes up saying that it cannot be moved! The e.mail was sent to me and I forwarded it. The e.mail is not in any other folder in the phone or on my mac. But it might be in my backup to the mac via itunes.

This is for your protection, its not supposed to be easy.
You should be keeping a record of all your passwords, security answers, etc.
Rescue email address and how to reset Apple id sec. questions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
If that doesn't work and you can verify the following info, call 1-800-APL-CARE.
1. apple id username, that is not locked or disabled.
2. serial number of an apple product registerd in your name
3. Billing info associated with your account

Why does my .jpg file sent from my laptop change into a mime-attachment when I try and retrieve it on my iPad?

I am trying to send myself pictures and simple graphics that I have created in photoshop so that I can save them in my photos app on my iPad and iPhone. I've tried a variety of file sizes and even saved them out as .png and .pdf files, but when I send them and go to my mail on the iPad, they show up as mime-attachments which cannot be opened.
When I look at the files in the inbox on my laptop, they are exactly as i sent them. When I look at the same exact email on my iPad and iPhone it shows as the mime-attachment.
What gives????

Set up drop box on computer and iPad use it to move photos instead.
This may help answer the problem if you want to use email
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6683451#6683451

Need HELP - Need to send MIME attachements, not UU-encoded.

Some important recipients are unable to view attachments I send them b/c Mail, by default, sends UU-encoded attachements instead of MIME attachements.
Is there any way to configure Mail to send MIME attachements?
FYI to any other people having problems SENDING attachements (this took a while to figure out):
Google, Yahoo, and some other mail services are not particularly UU-encoding friendly, and the recipients at those addresses sometimes receive a bunch of garbled 'code' or 'script' instead of the actual attachment file.
I've read lots on these discussions from people trying to deal with READING MIME attachements that other people have sent them, but cannot find any info on switching the SENT preferences to use UU encoding for attachments instead of MIME.
If anyone can clarify, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.
I use .mac to sync my 2 Mac Pros, MB Pro, iPhone, and three Mac Minis, so I'd really like to keep everything 'in sync' with Apple apps. Otherwise I'll have to switch to Entou-rage or Mozilla, which I don't really want to do...
Thanks in advance for any insight or advice...
- Sarge

I've taken the liberty of re-arranging your question for clarification.
Sarge_ wrote:
Some important recipients are unable to view attachments I send them b/c Mail, by default, sends UU-encoded attachements instead of MIME attachements.
I've read lots on these discussions from people trying to deal with READING MIME attachements that other people have sent them, but cannot find any info on switching the SENT preferences to use UU encoding for attachments instead of MIME.
Which one do you want to use? UU or MIME?
I do not think that Apple Mail sends UU-encoded attachments. UU is really old.
There are two settings that can fundamentally change the way Apple Mail sends messages.
1) Plain text vs. Rich text. With plain text you can't change the fonts or colors or anything else. There is a slight possibility that this mode sends UU attachments, but I can't check from the PC in front of me. Still, I doubt it. Rich text allows fancy fonts and colors.
2) Send Windows-friendly attachments. This will prevent Apple Mail from sending Macintosh-specific information in an e-mail message. In all cases, Apple Mail only sends standards-forming MIME e-mail messages, but many (all?) PC e-mail clients barf on this 100%-legal MIME e-mail message.
Is there any way to configure Mail to send MIME attachements?
Make sure that Windows-friendly attachments is turned on. The only downside is that other Mac users might not get resource data or might have problems with files lacking extensions. No one should be using resource data or files without extensions anymore, so this question is moot. If you do need to do that, wrap your files in a ZIP.
Google, Yahoo, and some other mail services are not particularly UU-encoding friendly, and the recipients at those addresses sometimes receive a bunch of garbled 'code' or 'script' instead of the actual attachment file.
This may happen regardless of what you do.
If anyone can clarify, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.
Here is a little write-up I did a few years back on this issue. According the the Apple discusssion regulations, I should say that I do sell a MIME-decoding tool through the link above. However, that tool will not help you send MIME e-mail messages. I'm not trying to sell you anything. These days, any decent e-mail client can handle either UU or MIME messages with no problem. There are a few notable exceptions to this, and unfortunately, those exceptions tend to have millions of customers. It is getting better though.

TS1506 In most of my email attachment the logo ( Mimi attachment ) show and I can not open that attachment , why and how to solve this problem ??? iPad 2, iOS 7

In most of my email attachment the logo ( Mimi attachment ) show and I can not open that attachment , why and how to solve this problem ???
iPad 2, iOS 7

When did this start? What was the last thing you changed before problem started?
Have you tried sending the attachment from a different account. Have a friend send you an attachment. Get a gmail account.
Send the email with attachments to two different accounts one to your ipad and the other to a gmail account in a web browser and not on an iPad. See if you can read the ones to the gmail account.
You did reboot your ipad?
Standard stuff for ipad.
http://www.my-iguru.com/ipad/ipad-hints-tips/ipad-viewing-saving-email-attachmen ts.php

Mail forwarded to Hotmail has MIME attachment

OSX 10.4.5/Mail 2.0.7
I've been having a persistent problem for some time now. When I'm out of the office, I have a rule set up to forward my mail to my Hotmail account, so that I receive an alert on my cell phone (Verizon). The mail arrives at Hotmail with a MIME attachment, making it unreadable on the phone thru the Hotmail web browser function.
I've got Mail set up to compose in Plain Text, and the option for replying in the same format is not checked.
If the incomming message has an attachment in the first place, I guess I can understand why it might get MIMEd when forwarded; but even text only messages get MIMEd.
Any suggestions?

Hmmm... good suggestion. I do have signatures, but they're plain text.
But in a possibly related issue, my signatures are buggy in Mail. I have them set up to auto insert depending on the account I'm sending the mail from (one is work, one personal) but they sometimes it doesn't choose the right one, and if I switch the sending account after the message is composed (but before I send), any attachment is deleted when the signature changes. But if I hit undo, the attachment comes back. I've always chalked that up to Mail's general buggyness... or perhaps some wierdness in synching with my laptop. But maybe it's related?
I just deleted my signatures and rebuilt them from scratch. I wonder if I should check the box "always match my default font"?

Mime Attachment in SOA

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Now I want to pass this attachment to BPEL , which will write at some location...
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Hi:
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