Send calendar invitation from mail

I've gone back to Mail from Outlook since "upgrading" to Lion in order to get around a bunch of problems.  Is there any way to take a message in Mail and "forward" that message to the people in the "to" and "copy" lists as a calendar or meeting invitation?  Yes, you can copy/paste the eMail addresses but this frequently involves a bunch of editing as the addresses do not come over without extra annotation.

leftyclick wrote:
Hello all,
I sync Gmail account with iCal on my Mac, and with my iPhone and iPad. I can see all of my events on all of my devices without a problem, and can send calendar invites on everything but my iPad. Is there a way to add an event invitation option to my iPad's calendar application?
AFAIK MobileMe is the only way to send event invites. If you have a MobileMe mail account then a new 'feature' of iPad Calendar is activated which allows sending invites.
I don't know of any other way to do it.

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