From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47125 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to steal the single useful idea in Outlook Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:07:53 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87it09n8h2.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: <86elbb6yjp.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> <86r8fbnnv9.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034294912 27430 127.0.0.1 (11 Oct 2002 00:08:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chris Halverson , ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17znLy-00078A-00 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:08:31 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17znM1-0001Au-00; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:09:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA20793 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 11497 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2002 00:08:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11484 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2002 00:08:12 -0000 Original-Received: from m029-045.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.217.29.45) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Oct 2002 00:08:12 -0000 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C432C10F0E8; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:07:53 +1000 (EST) Original-To: Niklas Morberg In-Reply-To: (Niklas Morberg's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:43:39 +0200") Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47125 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47125 On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Niklas Morberg wrote: > Chris Halverson writes: >> Jack Twilley 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 -- One day the white men arrived in ships with wings, which shone in the sun like knives. They fought hard battles with the Ngola and spat fire at him. They conquered his salt-pans and the Ngola fled inland to the Lukala river.. -- Pende oral tradition