responses to meeting invitations end up in Drafts mailbox and not automatically sent

I'm having the same issue - at the moment I've taken to accepting invites from Outlook 2011 as a workaround, but it was all working fine before the Mavericks update (and obviously I'd prefer to do it all from one mail application).

Exaclty the same problem here.. Also, the messages that are stuck in Drafts mailbox have "No Sender" - I assume this is the reason why it gets stuck but I've got no idea why my email address is not chosen as a sender by default.

It is exactly the same behavior here.

Can we expect any reply? When will this be fixed? This is not the exellence we are all knowing from Apple and I would have expected a fix or a workaround three months after the first reports.

I have the same problem. The invitation reply has no sender so it bounces back and stays as Draft.

Hi

I have exactly the same problem with mavericks client and exchange server 2013. One interesting element is those affected entries also dont seem to then show on my ios7 iphone/ipad as upcoming meetings in the ios calendar app?

Same issue here. The behavior seems to be relatively new. Not sure when it cropped up, but some time this year.

Exact same issue. Anyone found a resolution?

I just discovered I have this problem, and a few months of calendar responses were in my drafts folder: maybe dating back to my original upgrade to Mavericks. I had no idea that people couldn't see my responses to their calendar invitiations until someone just bugged me about responding to something just today.

Incidentally, I recently removed and re-added my Exchange account to Internet Accounts, so this isn't a "stale data" issue, it is broken right now.

Please fix this, Apple!

So here is a clue:

When I went to drafts, selected a bunch of calendar responses, right-clicked and selected "send", they all opened up windows indicating they had no outbound server selected for the account. I think the problem is related to the fact that the "Exchange" outbound email server is not listed in the list of outbound servers when you select "edit SMTP server list", even though it's in the list of servers.

Also having this same problem.

Same here 😟

Same here. Only when accepting from the Calendar app though.

I've had this issue for the last year or so - ever since upgrading to Mavericks as well. I've reinstalled OS X a few times for kicks and without changing any settings it still has this behavior of leaving calendar replies in the drafts folder. I've been running the Yosemite beta for a few weeks and the issue still persists in that. Our company has about 40 people who mostly use Apple Mail + Apple Calendar with Exchange and they all have the same issue so I'm really thinking this is an issue on Apple's end. Hopefully they fix in a patch to Mavericks or Yosemite before it goes GA.

Same issue here, although I have noticed the behaviour is different depending on how I respond to the meeting request:

1. If I respond directly in the Mail app, the response will go out to the organizer. However, I will not see the response in the sent folder. Mail deletes the original invitation from the inbox.

2. If I respond from the Calendar app's "inbox", the response will not reach the organizer and instead end up in the Mail draft folder (similar to everyone else in this thread). It will have the "no sender" issue, but if I open the response I can actually send it normally and it will show up in the sent folder. The original invitation is still left in my Mail inbox.

3. If I respond by opening the actual calendar entry (the grey one with dotted lines), the response will go out to the organizer correctly, and I will have a copy of the response in my sent folder. The original invitation is still in my Mail inbox.

All three methods will generate the appropriate entry in my calendar. Number 3 is what I would prefer... but obviously I would expect all different ways of responding to work in the same way. Also, I think many users would like to change whether the original invitation is deleted or not.

I'm new here so my question would be whether this thread can be sent as feedback to Apple?

Add me and countless others at my company with this same issue. Responding via "Calendar Inbox" or Notification center leaves and unsent draft in the draft email folder on Mail.

I also see the same thing in Yosemite public betas - so it does't look like it will be fixed in the next release either.

I would so much prefer to use Mail and Calendar over MS Outlook but good grief, Apple doesn't make it easy. It's not like I haven't reported this with examples, screen shots, etc. via the feedback app. So unless they are asleep at the wheel they should know about it.

I have the same issue and similar results as you for items 2 and 3. I never see invitations in Mail.app.

I looked at the source for a successful reply and for an unsuccessful one (i.e. stuck in Drafts). The successful had two more items than the unsuccessful one:

1. a proper From: email address

2. X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: -1

Mail.app complains about the lack of a sender. I have no idea if item 2 has any impact either.

Scott