# (1 of 13): Andy

7 hours, 34 minutes after the fact. (Thu 15 Feb 2007, 4:51 PM CST)

Once again we seem to be discovering things at the same time. :) Here is a quick tip though, learned the hard way: if you forward a Outlook meeting invitation to a gmail address, and the Gmail recipient hits reply, I found that they will actually reply to the meeting organizer, not the invite forwarder (which means it will go back into your corporate email server). Make sense? I assume Gmail parses the Outlook invite and Google decided to implement "Reply" to act differently in this case, so that replies go directly to the meeting organizer. (hat tip to Sara)

# (2 of 13): Matthom

9 hours, 23 minutes after the fact. (Thu 15 Feb 2007, 6:41 PM CST)

I think that makes sense. The meeting organizer should be receiving all invites' replies.

Although there are occasions where I do not wish to invite someone to the meeting, but still forward them the message, in order to discuss it, before I make a decision to accept or decline the meeting. In this case, if that person hits reply to my message, I want it to come back to me, not the organizer.

Perhaps I'll wait to see it in action before I make any judgements...

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# (3 of 13): Marko

1 month, 1 week after the fact. (Wed 28 Mar 2007, 4:53 PM CST)

Hi,

Can I ask you how you configured gmail to identify outlook meeting requests and add them to gmail's online calendar? I can't figure it out and doing so will save me oodles of time.

Thanks

Marko

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# (4 of 13): Matthom

1 month, 1 week after the fact. (Wed 28 Mar 2007, 5:29 PM CST)

Hi Marko,

I didn't do anything specific to configure this. Rather, I just received an Outlook meeting request via email, and noticed that Gmail "reacted" differently, by recognizing the request, and providing options to add to my calendar, etc.

It was one of those things that I didn't know existed until it happened.

Hope that helps.

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# (5 of 13): Marko

1 month, 1 week after the fact. (Wed 28 Mar 2007, 7:11 PM CST)

Thanks for your quick reply. Doesn't seem to work for me. I'm on Firefox. Maybe that's it. I wonder if there's something I have to turn on or off to get it to work. Sure would be nice!

Thanks

Marko

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# (6 of 13): Matthom

1 month, 1 week after the fact. (Wed 28 Mar 2007, 7:32 PM CST)

Hmmm, as far as I know - there's no setting that needs to be turned on. Gmail should just recognize the Outlook meeting request. I haven't tested this extensively, though.

For example, I'm wondering what would happen if you didn't have a Google Calendar account, but still had a Gmail account.

It's definitely not the Firefox thing, because I am using that too.

There also doesn't seem to be much information on the web regarding this. I even checked the Gmail help section, but only found answers on using Outlook to sync your Gmail. Nothing about meeting requests.

Did someone send you an Outlook meeting request? If not, I can send you one for testing purposes, to see if it works.

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# (7 of 13): Marko

1 month, 1 week after the fact. (Wed 28 Mar 2007, 11:26 PM CST)

Thanks again for your reply. Yes, it is strange. I have a google calendar account and asked colleagues to send me outlook meeting requests to my gmail account (as well as sending myself some from Entourage. No luck. If you don't mind, try sending me one to markosolo@gmail.com and I'll let you know what transpires. Thanks again. Marko

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# (8 of 13): Matthom

1 month, 1 week after the fact. (Thu 29 Mar 2007, 8:00 AM CST)

OK I've sent a meeting request your way.

The only other reason I can think of is maybe this feature hasn't yet been rolled out to every Gmail user. Sometimes Google rolls new features out slowly.

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# (9 of 13): Raul

2 months, 3 weeks after the fact. (Mon 07 May 2007, 11:23 AM CST)

I had the same problem during days. In my case, the solution was to setup the language preference in my gmail account from spanish to english(US).

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# (10 of 13): David

5 months, 1 week after the fact. (Mon 23 Jul 2007, 6:08 PM CST)

Confirmed - this fixed it for me also. I switched from English UK to English US and the feature started working for me.

Cool!

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# (11 of 13): B

6 months, 4 weeks after the fact. (Wed 12 Sep 2007, 9:55 AM CST)

all of a sudden it has stopped working!!!

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# (12 of 13): Peter

1 year after the fact. (Sat 16 Feb 2008, 5:40 AM CST)

I tried the same, changed from Dutch to English US, however without succes, we might have to wait untull google 'releases' this feature.

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# (13 of 13): Heather Kelly

1 year, 2 months after the fact. (Tue 13 May 2008, 4:50 PM CST)

I have a gmail/outlook problem that i'm hoping you can help me with. i send/receive appointments via gmail using outlook mobile. i have my gmail set up with my mobile outlook with imap settings. when i send an appointment, it just comes over as an e-mail and nothing i (or my husband using aol imap via outlook mobile) can accept to the calendar. i realize we are using a whole bunch of different features here but i would like to send/receive appointments using gmail and have them appear on my mobile outlook calendar. same for my husband. he would like to send/receive appointments using aol imap via outlook mobile.

any ideas? i have outlook mobile set up to "send meeting requests via gmail" but they do not work properly.

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