On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com>
wrote:> Hi, sorry if this is a dumb question, but is it possible to put a encoded
> ics as an email attachment, if so is there anything special I need to do?
Yes, you need to construct the icalendar as an event invitation. iTIP
and iMIP describe how to do this.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#iCalendar_Data_Exchange
, it has links to the RFCs.
Probably just making them attachments with a MIME type of
text/calendar would be sufficient, you''d want to test it. And if you
find anything interesting, post back here, it might help the next
person who wants to do this.
> Some people seem to send email with a link to download the ics, vs ical
> seems to send an email that is the ics. I have an html email that I want a
iCal uses iMIP.
> user to be able to click a link to get the event into their calendar and im
> not sure which approach is best.
Which do you want? :-)
If you want them to click a link, you know what to do, just do it, if
you want the events automatically delivered to their scheduling
software (assuming they have some!), then they need to be
text/calendar attachments.
Sam