Outlook is sending appointment requests in a way which makes them invisible to me, by lying in the e-mail messages it creates.
It's sending a multipart/alternative message, with three parts: text/plain (containing the message the sender type), text/html (ditto, with superfluous mark-up), and text/calendar (a VCalendar file containing details of the appointment). Mutt is, correctly, believing that to be three alternative representations of the same content, so is picking one to show me (the plain text) and ignoring the other two, not even alerting me to their existence. Outlook could've sent the text/calendar file as a separate multipart/mixed part (like any 'normal' e-mail attachment), not labelling it as an alternative. Or, since the VCalendar file already contains the entire text of the message, it could have inserted the appointment time and place into the plain text and HTML parts such that all three do convey the same information and are substitutable alternatives, and then continued to label them as such. But no, it lies, hatefully mislabelling every appointment request it sends out, meaning that I miss out on realizing that some seemingly innocuous e-mail messages are actually appointment requests, and consequently I fail to spend time attending various meetings and conference calls, instead staying at my desk quietly getting on with ... hmmm, on second thoughts ... Smylers
