Verify a bug: iCal can't read it's own invitations if lines are too long

Question

Hi all,
Can you help me isolate (and hopefully get Apple to fix ASAP) a bug in iCal?
1. Create an event in iCal
2. Add an invitee with a very long email address, OR with a very long name, so that the combination of "ATTENDEE;" with the name and address exceeds 72 chars.
3. Send the invitation.
4. Go to the computer of the invitee, and try to accept the invitation.
5. It will complain that the address is not in your ME card - but it's looking for only part of the address, that got cut off at the 72-character line. iCal fails to recognise the wrapped line (see examples below) and the invitation is useless. (in the example below, I get a notification that "[email protected]" is not in the ME card in my address book because iCal doesn't see the 'u'.)
ATTENDEE;CN="Michael Cutter";PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:[email protected]
u
ATTENDEE:mailto:sendingthelongestpossibleemailaddressthaticouldeverimagi
[email protected]
To check if you've got an email address long enough to be wrapped, have a look at your sent invitation in TextEdit or similar and you'll see a break like above.
Can you please try this and tell me if you can replicate the problem? It's driving people in my office nuts because all you need is a status like
"PARTSTAT=REQUIRES ACTION;"
and you've already lost 25 chars of your 72 char limit. Add a name and an email and you're gone - but if you are lucky enough to usually only have short names or just emails in your invitations you probably won't see this error!

Answer 1

I can now explain (I think) why nobody else seems to be able to reproduce this bug - it's caused by using Entourage X with iCal! Invitations sent TO Entourage X are broken when passed into iCal on the recipient's Mac.
Solution: upgrade to Entourage 2004 or switch to Mail. The SENDER's mail program doesn't seem to have an affect.