In addition, iCal seems to access user's personal vCard in Address Book to embed reply-to emails to the '.ics' calendar invitation file. This may be one source of error, since users receiving an email from this address may send a direct reply as confirmation of event attendance and if the reply-to email is incorrect the reply will be sent to the wrong address. Instead, iCal uses the default email address in Mail to send invitations from.

There is no way in the iCal application to set the default email account used for sending invitations. The email that is used will be displayed next to the 'ORGANIZER' tag, so users can troubleshoot where this address is being accessed in either Address Book or Mail. To check which email account is being appended to invitations in iCal, users can open the sent iCal event in TextEdit (right-click the '.ics' file and select 'open with'). I cannot figure this out, and it is driving me batty.' When I send personal invitation in iCal from my MobileMe email address, they ALWAYS get returned to my work email address. 'I have two emails account, personal (MobileMe) and work (general POP email account, not MobileMe). Some users are having problems with this feature, in which the wrong account is being used to receive invitation replies.Īpple Discussions poster Emily Kessler writes: When users create events in iCal, they are presented with an option to add attendees to the event and have the program send an email invitation to the listed individuals.

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