A script to handle Outlook meetings with Mail and iCal
Oct 18, '04 09:54:00AM
Contributed by: galaher
An older hint here (Work with Outlook meeting requests in Mail) didn't seem to work for many of us. The body of the invitations I get look like the following:
When: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana.
Where: Meeting Room
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They still look like that for me, but I wrote an AppleScript (view source) that is intended to parse the selected "meeting request email" in Mail.app for the string as per the above example. It then shows you that day in iCal (I couldn't figure out how to get it to scroll to the correct hour) and gives you a dialog asking for you to accept, decline, or cancel. Accepting adds it to iCal with an alarm, and sends an email accepting (this does not plug into any Outlook Invitation architecture: it's just an email). Declining sends an email declining. Cancel quits the script.
I found all my "meeting requests" are formatted the same way, but if this script breaks for you, it's likely to be in the handler that massages the contents of the "meeting request email." For those whose invitations also come in consistently formatted, you can probably tweak the parsing bit to work for you.
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