Hello, I use iCal 5.0.1, Mail 5.1 and OSX 10.7.2 on a Mac Mini.
In iCal I have a number of calendars, basically one work calendar and one private calendar. I work from home. In Mail, I have a number of email accounts that are set up to show a different 'From' sender names to suit work and private. I do not respond to meeting requests sent to me with any confidence, not knowing what email address is going to be included in the reply. This is my main issue - I want to be sure that if I respond to a meeting request, that it is sent from the correct email account. I also understand there still remains a problem with iCal meeting requests not functioning correctly with Outlook. I've seen a script to hack into iCal that might fix this, but not game to try that yet, and have no real way of testing it in a house of Macs. Searching the Apple Support forums and Google, it seems like this is a common experience, and one with few or no solutions. iCal Reply Checker by John Maisey is only working for OSX 10.6.x http://www.zamain.com/ has a solution the charge $15 a year on a subscription, and doesn't inspire confidence with no specific reference to working under 10.7.2 as their website says "10.5.x, 10.6.x and beyond". Given the changes with iCloud and Lion - "and beyond" is a bit of a big statement! Given most meeting requests are work related and following what I have learnt from the various forums, I have moved my work calendar to the top of the list. This apparently assists when meeting requests are automatically imported from Mail, and iCal places the meeting request into the calendar that is at the top of the list. Same goes for replying to meeting requests. Apparently, iCal uses the email account that is at the top of the list in Mail, so I have put my work email account at the top of the list in Mail. I'd like to be able to move my contact details around in Address Book too, just to add another layer of reliability, but the best I can do is to make sure there is only one email address listed as Home and one listed as Work. All the others are listed as Other, or custom labels. Has anyone found a reliable solution to this problem, or have a commentary on the solutions I have put into place - but yet to try out live. Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
