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    copied!<p>I am having trouble importing the vcalendar "script" below into Outlook 2003. What I am doing is using php's mail() function, and essentially sending a message that will contain this calendar, and thus create an event. Unfortunately, the team I am creating this for cannot upgrade to a newer version of Outlook, so if there is a 2003 quirk, that may be affecting it. It imports fine into Google Calendar, and according to <a href="http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/" rel="nofollow">http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/</a>, it validates perfectly. There are two errors I keep receiving:</p> <p>1 - If I send this to, let's say my Gmail account and download the .ics file, I get the following error: </p> <blockquote> <p>"Cannot import vCalendar file. This error can appear if you have attempted to save a recurring Lunar appointment in iCalendar format. To avoid this error, set the appointment option to Gregorian instead of Lunar."</p> </blockquote> <p>2 - If I send this to the email account associated with Outlook, it just shows up as an Untitled Attachment, and when I double-click that attachment, it opens up a new message dialog for some reason.</p> <p>The calendar "script" is below -</p> <pre><code>BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:THIS IS THE CALENDAR NAME X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20101117T170000Z DTEND:20101117T180000Z DTSTAMP:20101116T175944Z CREATED:20101116T034056Z DESCRIPTION:This is the description. LAST-MODIFIED:20101116T034056Z LOCATION:THIS IS THE LOCATION SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:This is the summary! TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR </code></pre> <p>Thank you all for the help in advance! This is my first time working with these, so I apologize if there are any n00b mistakes...</p>
 

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