Multipart email with text and calendar: Outlook doesn’t recognize ics

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You are missing the iTIP method, both in the content-type:

Content-Type: text/calendar; charset="utf-8"; method=REQUEST

and as a VCALENDAR property as well:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:-//GourmetPortal//NONSGML rr//DE

The method might be PUBLISH or REQUEST (in which case you also miss some ATTENDEE property).

Then, some clients are ignoring iMIP in multipart/alternative and are looking only as attachments so you may need to try the following structure:

multipart/mixed
  multipart/alternative
    text/plain
    text/calendar;method=REQUEST
  text/calendar (with a content-disposition:attachment)

Essentially, you are adding the attachment twice. iMIP invitation from google/yahoo calendar and lightning have such a structure.

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