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Mac mail outlook calendar invite

I am using mac mail and mac calendar on OS X 12.1. My institution uses Microsoft Outlook and and Exchange server for mail. When I get a message from someone at my institution with a calendar invite, the top bar appears with the Maybe, Accept, Decline buttons, but clicking on Accept does not put the event in my calendar; it just deletes the email and does not change my calendar in any way.


There is no (obvious) option to download an attachment from the message and add the event that way.


Is there a fix for this?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 11, 2022 4:14 PM

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Posted on Jan 20, 2022 9:08 AM

To follow up on this, I can now confirm that if I disable the calendar on the Exchange account and then click "Accept" for an invitation, it does NOT go to my mac calendar application in any way. I'll note that a search turned up other people with similar problems, so perhaps this is a bug that could be fixed?

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Jan 20, 2022 9:08 AM in response to l_m_f

To follow up on this, I can now confirm that if I disable the calendar on the Exchange account and then click "Accept" for an invitation, it does NOT go to my mac calendar application in any way. I'll note that a search turned up other people with similar problems, so perhaps this is a bug that could be fixed?

Jan 12, 2022 12:06 PM in response to ryane77

Thanks for your response. I'm trying to reply by using the buttons that pop up at the top of the message within Mail:

These messages do not generate a notification in the calendar application.


I have not tried to do this from iCloud.com, as I would much prefer to be able to accept the invitation from within Mail.

Jan 17, 2022 10:59 AM in response to KMB_12

Now that I've added the outlook calendar, it does appear, and the invitations that I accepted appear in that calendar. Unfortunately I haven't received any new invitation so I can't check as to whether deselecting it changes anything, but I will note that when this all started, I did not have that calendar enabled, and the invitation did not go to any of my enabled calendars.

Mac mail outlook calendar invite

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