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A script to easily add Outlook invites to iCal
Authored by: Nikolay Komarov on Apr 13, '06 04:34:09AM
Hi!
I tried your script and discovered that it doesn't work for me. I have Mac OS X 10.4.4 and my env differs from what your scripts expects: first of all, I don't have any ~/bin, so I had to leave this program just in ~; second, the script did nothing until I replaced:
item=mime-attachment
with:
item=mime-attachment.ics
I think it's my personal setting, that the extensions aren't hidden. I've posted it just in case someone else will find it useful.

In the end I'd like to thank you and to ask for a little continuation of your respectable effort. There is a little problem left that doesn't let me be happy. After my MS Windows-ed colleague receives my invitation and successfully (as he thinks) replies to it, I receive his confirmaton to my Mac OS X Mail and get a notification in iCal about this fact, but after I press OK to process this confirmation iCal does nothing. Seems like somewhere inside the confirmation processing routine there is a couple of code lines that expect some data portion that is actually ignored by Outlook.
We need to fix it!! :-)
I'm not that good in sed but I could provide you with sample invitation confirm files so that we could make a great script together. What do you think?

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