iCal can’t accept invites sent to any address

February 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments · EN, Geeky

Our company has e-mail aliases for various internal groups. People have the habit of inviting participants to meetings using these mailing lists, instead of the exact e-mail address of each person. Whenever I receive an invitation via one of these mailing lists, iCal can’t accept it and pops up the following message:

Someone invited you to an event using an email address that isn’t on your “me” card in Address Book. Find your email address in the following list and add it to your card in Address Book.

This is the most illogical, counter-productive, outrageous “feature” anyone could think of. It makes NO sense, and it’s a great source of frustration. Big enough to make me happy about switching to MS Entourage.

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1 Sam Griffith // Sep 11, 2006 at 13:46

I had this problem too and figured it out with help from MacOSXHints.com.

Here’s the link:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php

And the solution:

“I just had this exact same problem, so I edited the raw .ics file before importing it, and I found that if I changed any part of the “RECURRENCE-ID” field (or just removed it altogether), the I was able to import it successfully. I don’t know if that will screw up the event id for subsequent updates to the event, but it at least got it into the calendar.”

Note that the RECURRENCE-ID field is near the bottom of the file. Just remove the line and it works.
2 Gabriel Radic // Sep 11, 2006 at 14:27

Thanks Sam.

The workaround would mean to edit every .ics attachment before adding it, which is too much if you get a more than a couple invitations every day.

Instead, I just switched to Entourage, as all the invitations I get are coming from people on Outlook.

PS: the tight link to the article on macosxhints is http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051004133206188.

Timbru

Gabriel Radic