Sending message to outlook calendar from other email program or with PHP

Hi

Is it possible to send a message that will appear in someone's Outlook
calendar as an appointment/meeting from another email program of from a PHP
or Perl script that makes use of mail? I am particularly interested in PHP
using its mail functions to send a message directly to a user's calendar. It
also should be able to send to more than one user. Everyone here is using
Outlook 2002 and we have an Exchange 5.5 mail server.

Is this possible at all?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hugo

Not without the user's intervention to accept a meeting request (or the
equivalent user setting to accept requests automatically). Such a meeting
request could be created as a vCal or iCal item.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


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Hi

Is it possible to send a message that will appear in someone's Outlook
calendar as an appointment/meeting from another email program of from a
PHP
or Perl script that makes use of mail? I am particularly interested in PHP
using its mail functions to send a message directly to a user's calendar.
It
also should be able to send to more than one user. Everyone here is using
Outlook 2002 and we have an Exchange 5.5 mail server.

Is this possible at all?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hugo