Re: How to steal the single useful idea in Outlook

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Niklas Morberg wrote:
> Chris Halverson <cdh@halverson.org> writes:
>> Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org> writes:
>>
>>> I'll check them out. I'm more interested right now in reading what
>>> MS Outlook sends by default than writing something MS Outlook will
>>> read, but obviously both are important.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that is what Outlook sends out. I've added meetings
>> to my company's Steltor (now Oracle, http://www.steltor.com/)
>> calendar that people sent me from Outlook.
> 
> Meeting requests where I work are not sent in iCalendar
> format. We use Outlook 2000 and Exchange (probably not the
> latest version, whatever that is). See attachment for a
> complete meeting request.

Traditionally, when using an Exchange server and an IMAP connection,
Outlook would store many of the meeting details in custom IMAP message
attributes and include a brief summary or empty message body...

This may have changed with Outlook and Exchange 2000, but it used to be
a bit of a paint.

  Daniel

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