Sending an Outlook 2003/2010 Meeting Request via CF

Well, that about sums it up!
OK, a few more details: my application is sending out emails without any problems, but now the user wants to be able to receive appointment requests to the public calendar that she maintains instead of having to retype the email information that is coming to her inbox. Her ideal solution is to receive an appointment request to the public calendar which she can accept, tentatively accept, ir decline.
This public calendar (called DMV-ISB) is available to everyone in the department and we can manually add our leave information to it. However, as humans are inclined to do, no one bothers. This creates an administrative nughtmare for her and there are days she spends up to four hours coordinating the calendar.
We are currently using Outlook 2003, but expect to migrate to Outlook 2010 by the end of the year, so the solution has to be either robust or easily converted. I've tried using cfmail with the cfmailparam/cfmailpart tags, but all I get is an email, no appointment request.
Thanks in advance for your time and suggestions.

As you pointed out, the owner still has to interact with the request (although a lot less interaction than before). An email appears and the owner has to open the attachment (which is the appointment request, properly formatted!) and then accept the request.
This is frustrating because I have seen other examples where the request arrives without being "cloaked" in an email as an attachment.
If you want to do this, find an example email and view the original email message directly.
http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/How_to_View_the_Complete_Message_Source_in_Outloo k.htm?rd=1
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

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Test 2: Altered meeting.ics from Nokia Email WITH PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION
I send these "meeting.ics" tests via my Groupwise Client as an attachment file.
When I received both in my Google Mail, Google is able to properly render this as a Calendar Item and display it as such, asking me to say YES, NO, MAYBE to both instances of the Test Emails.
So, maybe PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION has nothing to do with this then...
I forwarded the test messages back to myself to see what MIME-TYPE Groupwise sent this as this time.
It sent it as TEXT/PLAIN and encoded in Base64. So now, we know Base64 Encoding & 8Bit Encoding is not the culprit.
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MIME-TYPES. Something so basic, something that would cause a HUGE ERROR.
Is this a BUG? I THINK IT IS... PLEASE FIX THIS ERROR. PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
So... THIS IS A FAIL. Nokia!
Collaboration is also part of "Connecting People". If Person X using Outlook, Person B using Crackberry, Person C using iPhone, Person D using Android, Person E using a Nokia Symbian cannot collaborate and send/receive/accept/deny Calendar Items they send each other... isn't there a HUGE DISCONNECT?
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