iCloud Calendar invitations not working

I migrated my MobileMe account to iCloud and calendar invitations are not working. When I create a calendar event and select an invitee an email is not sent to the invitee. I have tried sending invites from iCal on my MacBook Air, iPhone, and iCloud.com with no success. I tested by creating a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID and still no luck. Anyone else having this problem?

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 1:41 PM

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Jan 17, 2012 11:33 AM in response to Serge99

Thats it - thanks a lot.


Eventually useful - also login in "only purchase" Accounts - such you were using the time befor @me or icloud came up .. e.g. name@gmx.com etc.

In my case my purchase mail adresse (also appleID but not using for sync icloud mail, cal, etc.) name@gmx.com has the unverified email adress named as my name@me.com adress (thats the ID i use for icloud sync)

After deleting this unverified ID everything goes fine! iCal events came by push to my mate.


THX


@Apple - seems to be a notice in your support 🙂

Jan 17, 2012 2:53 PM in response to EricandIcal

@EricandIcal


I reply to invites sent to my iCloud address (invites sent to my "me.com") via iCal's notifier (because I never receive these as emails).


I reply to invites sent to any other email address (e.g. my non-iCloud Apple ID or any other email address) by clicking on the links in the email I receive (although I can see these as invites in iCal too, I either cannot respond or the response is never received).


I can appreciate all the confusion. Before iCloud came along, I think iCal notifications worked very differently - people could send me invites to ANY of my email addresses and once I'd accepted/declined I'd see a corresponding "sent message" appear in the Mail app (i.e. there seemed to be some integration between iCal and Mail apps). Since iCloud arrived I don't think they're integrated in the same way (i.e. I never see anything in "Sent Messages" now) and it certainly appears that I can only accept/decline messages via iCal notifiers provided that (1) the invite was sent directly to my iCloud email address, and (2) there are no stray UNVERIFIED email addresses lurking around in my Apple IDs.


My advice: if you get an email, respond via the email. If you don't, use the iCal notifiers.

Feb 6, 2012 12:42 AM in response to RustonJ

Solution in this topic worked for me!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3454604?answerId=17319571022#17319571022


Contacting apple support also solved my problem. I Also couldn't remove (or see) that my appleID was registered with an old MobileMe account that was no longer active (Was a 30 day free trial that I didn't continue). I think at one point in december they rolled all MobileMe accounts over to iCloud somewhere in December (as it stopped working for me in December) and my email address conflicted on both accounts...


Support escalated the case and the address was manually removed by an employee and it started working like before.

Feb 16, 2012 11:31 PM in response to TDFRANCIS82

Same problem here; not receiving invitations in Icloud or Ical agenda, but only via email as an "ics attachment"

Resolved by removing any "alternate UNVERIFIED" email addresses in my Apple ID; log in with your ID (https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa) and remove those email adresses...

Thanks for all the suggestions here in this thread.

It helped me solving this irritating problem!

Thanks

Manus

Feb 18, 2012 9:54 AM in response to RustonJ

Yes I am having same issue but all was running fine for awhile. I converted to iCloud months ago. All with invites fine - I do these on daily basis... then all of a sudden the people I was inviting were letting me know they were not getting my invites. I trouble shooted, not a lot of success except, if you put choose the On Your Mac calendar instead of iCloud calendar, it does work. But that's a problem as I need it to be on iCloud calendar so all syncs with my devices. Really frustrating. In theory I would have to create separate event - one for myself and one for my invitees... stupid. Really annoyed. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts.


I'm not sure of the whole response above about SPF record but that's not really helpful. It should be seamless... and it was til just recently. I'm not sure what changed.

Feb 21, 2012 2:13 PM in response to RustonJ

Same problem here - the iCloud calendar won't send any invites. In addition, received invites from Outlook/Exchange Server are only shown as ICS files in emails, not as invitations which I could accept/decline.


I guess I will have to get in touch with Apple support (though I have only one @me.com address with no other addresses linked to it).

Feb 21, 2012 2:51 PM in response to RustonJ

I got some help from great sources at. Ended up talking to a guy. Didn't pay anything. They wanted me to initially but I said it was an iCloud issue that they needed to address, etc. Turns out I didn't really have a problem! Long story but it's on my husband's end!! Mail will not show the invite sent when you use iCloud as goes from your server to icloud server to recipient server. Technically coming from iCloud and not direct from my isp. anyway, they were a wealth of info and bet they could troubleshoot for you.


Have you tried Express Lane?


Jump start your next support call by creating a case online first. Let us know the best time to reach you, and we'll connect you to an Apple Advisor who has the answers. Put yourself in the driver's seat and check out Express Lane today!


http://expresslane.apple.com

Mar 2, 2012 11:11 AM in response to RustonJ

Here's the answer to the issue of iCloud calendar not sending invites ...

Your iCloud me.com email address must be active. Otherwise, iCloud does not have a proper email address from which to send thr invitation.


So on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows, turn on the iCloud mail option and create a new email address @me.com. You can choose to add that email acct to your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows mail accounts, or simply manage it on the web at icloud.com.


If you do not want to actively monitor the me.com email acct, I'd suggest forwrding mail from the me.com acct to an email address that you do actively manage.

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