iCloud Calendar invitations not working

This doesn't work for me. My wife is on Snow Leopard and Mobile Me. I'm on Lion and iCloud. She sends me invitations often. They used to work but don't any longer.

Why can't Apple get this right? They claim that Mobile Me was a failure, but at least it worked. iCloud doesn't.

And don't tell me that she needs to update to Lion in order for invitations to work. I shouldn't have to wait for everyone else in the world upgrades to Lion and iCloud in order to receive calender invitations from them.

This is pretty basic, Apple. Get it right!

Same issue with invites sent to my apple id email. Has anyone resolved this?

I'm still not getting invites sent from an iCloud calendar sent to my apple id email. I have an Exchange calendar but I use my exchange email as my apple id. For some reason I'm not fetting invites. I read Google calendar users are having the same issue with invites not being received.

Has anyone resolved this????

I noticed that only 2 of my friends are receiving my iCloud invites and they both have one thing in common that differs from those who cannot receive them — they haven't changed the default name (description) of their iCloud accounts on their devices, i.e. they are still called "iCloud", whereas the rest of us have changed the account name to our own names;

settings/mail, contacts, calendars/accounts [select account]/account/description

I figured out the problem.

icloud uses the apple id as the sender email address. But this is not allowed on many mail servers. Because if the target mail server receives a icloud invitation, they ask the mail server from sender email address, if the server who sends this email is allowed to do that. This will be done by the SPF record.

as an example: your apple id is myappleid@gmx.net, now you invite one person: oneperson@hisdomain.com

no the email invitation will be sent from the icloud server (badger1302.apple.com) but the sender address is myappleid@gmx.net. now on the target side, the mail server hisdomain.com asks gmx.net, if mail server badger1302.apple.com is allowed to send email with sender address myappleid@gmx.net. But gmx.net doesn allow that. So most target mail server then decides to drop such emails. if email server ignore this SPF record, then the email will be acceppted.

So to bring this running, it should be possible to configure, which email should be used to send such email invitations (good would be a @me.com address), but currently the apple id will be used and there no @me.com is allowed.

an other solution is to use a apple id where you have control of the SPF record (if you have your own domain)

I hope that helps

Some of these posts don't say if the person not getting a calendar invite is using a gmail address, but this problem is solved by just a selection in iCloud. See: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3454604?answerId=16594875022#16594875022

Hi,

I've done some Testing. Inviting People on a event on the first calendar Works. Invites on second or higher calendar doesn't.

There is another problem that incomming invites are always added to the first calendar and the calender can't be changed

Tested on Iphone 3GS / IOS 5.0.1 and IPad2 / IOS5.0.1

Greetings

Estartu

I've had similar problems with iCal invitees not getting invitees, but mine are based on the email being invited. For example, my wife's cox.net email account and Gmail email account both do not receive my iCal invites, but I also have my own cox.net and gmail emails and these emails DO receive my iCal invites. And it's not because they are my accounts or anything like that. I never use either of those emails. Ever. They aren't in my address book. There's no way I can think of iCal would know they are even my addresses. But they do work while my wife's emails from the same email domains don't work.

I thought it might have something to do with whether or not an email address is in my address book or not, but one email that doesn't work is in my Address Book and another one is not.

Anyone have any clues on why some email addresses work and others don't even when they are from the same email provider? Maybe this will shed more light on the overall problem with invitees not getting iCal invites.

I was a mobileMe user and i migrated to iCloud. I have always had @me.com address. But still calendar invites sent from icloud, ical on macbook or iphone or iPad is just received to users on outlook as an email invitation. when they click on ical.ics file to add it to their calendar it says it cannot do that.

Also the weird thing is that recipient sees himself as sender whereas it should me my address or senders address showing in the sender field.

@Yagnesh: When i send calendar invites from my private iCal om my iMac at home to my work where they use Outlook, i can't accept the invite in Outlook after "upgrading" from MobileMe to iCloud. It says that there is no need to reply to the invite, since it is mysself, who sent the invitation...

Until now i thought that it was because my name is the same in iCal as it is in Outlook at work. But it makes more sense after reading your observation about the reciepient adress showing up in the sender field!!!

That sounds like a fatal, but simple bug to correct in iCloud....

My issue isn't that I don't receive the invites. It's that there are no longer any buttons to Accept or Deny the invitation. There's no way to get invitations from Mail to iCal other than to manually create an iCal event. But then, the person who sent the invitation doesn't know if I've accepted or not.

It's just broken. And I'd expect Apple to have fixed it by now. Or at least jump on here and offer some assistance.

I'm having the same issue. I can invite my fiance to an iCloud event using her @mac.com address. The event shows up on her calendar. The invitation shows up in her invitation list as "Accepted" even though it never asks her to accept it. When she opens the event on her phone it says her status is "No Reply" and gives her no option to change it. On my end it looks like she never replied. Resending the invite through iCal does nothing.

A work around if you only have a few select people you want to invite to meetings. Create a new email account for the person, and set it up to forward to their real email address. Create a Contact entry with the new account, but DO NOT link it to their primary Contact record. You can invite the new address, they will receive the invitations, and they can accept or decline as per a normal invite. Obviously, this is not a general solution, but if you have a few select people like your wife or fiance, it does seem to work.

Since last night my iCloud calendar (never attached to MobileMe) has not been sending or receiving invites at all.

I've tested on my old converted MobileMe account and invites work perfectly. However, when invites were sent to the faulty iCloud account they were received as emails instead of push notifications.

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