meeting requests seens as text message

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For years I have been unable to accept meeting request from family or
work computers. They are always seen as a text message. I can send
them meetings, they can accept/decline, but their response is also
received as a text message. I assumed that it was because they had
Office XP & I still had Office 2000. I recently tried (& removed) an
upgrade to Office 2003, but that did not fix the problem.

all request are received/sent over the internet

Per past postings:
No reminders checked
iCal unchecked on mine & theirs
I cleared my forms cache
I have SP-1, SP-2 & SP-3 installed

Outlook 2000 SP-3 9.0.0.6627, IMO - Security Update
Windows XP Pro ver 2, SP 2002

thanks
 
Just checked, meeting requests sent from my kids' computer, also with
Outlook 2000, are seen as a calendar appointment in my OL 2000.
 
If you switch to using iCal on machines does it fix anything? iCal
appointments traverse the Internet 'better' than Outlook native ones due
(RTF issues & such)
 
husband is on network and iCal is greyed out in his options, so he can
not change. Changing mine to iCal has no effect.
 
What does the text you receive from others look like? Is it an iCal?
 
I'm not sure?

It just comes as a message: If I send out a meeting request, it looks
like a calendar appt to the recipient & they can accept/deny like
normal.
Any meeting requests sent to me or deny/accepts sent to me come in an
email (does not have the calendar icon in the Inbox) and look like
below.

"Subject: Test

When: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:30 PM-10:00 PM (GMT-06:00) Central
Time (US & Canada).
Where:

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*"
 
Hmmm, that's not an iCal message.

Send me an invite to something. I'm curious how it comes across.
 
I guessed at your full email & sent to test appointments. One with
iCal, one w/o. When I sent test appointments to others earlier in
iCal, the recipients did not receive an appt. as before, they too
received a text email.

Please let me know if you do not receive. Thanks.
 
I got both and they looked like meeting requests. One from 2-2:30 and one
from 2:30-3:00. I'm accepting them now. See what makes its way back to you
 
O.K. Yours came back as an appt.

I downloaded SP1-3 & cleared the cache on Sun. I only ran a test with
my husband. I just checked with my office (OLXP). It works with
theirs now, too.

Still does not work with my husbands OLXP. I still get text messages
from him, although he gets appts from me. I will investigate the
setting on his computer & network. Thanks for your help.
 
Still does not work with my husbands OLXP. I still get text messages
from him, although he gets appts from me. I will investigate the
setting on his computer & network. Thanks for your help.
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Is he adding your name as a recipient from his Contacts? If so, have him
open your Contacts record and double-click on the email address. Examine
the drop-down at the bottom of that window. If it shows "Send plain text
only", that's the problem.
 
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