iCloud calendar not sending invites
As in the title. iCloud calendar is not sending invites to people being invited. No matter whether I try via icloud.com or iCal.app synced with iCloud - it just doesn't. No events no updates. Tested sending to a gmail address and at least two other.
Why doesn't it?
Found this @ http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/gtpX0F7kgKI
For what it's worth, I started having a similar issue recently and came across this thread while researching the solution. My wife has an iPhone, I'm Android, and she routinely sends calendar invites to me. We just realized that I've recently stopped getting those invites to my Gmail account, even though she's still adding me the same way she always has. It turns out that since my iCloud account is setup with my Gmail address, iCloud has started to "intercept" those invites from her iPhone. Instead of going to my email account, they're being automatically added to my iCalendar. This can be disabled by:
- Logging in at https://www.icloud.com
- Go to Calendar -> (Cog) -> Preference -> Advanced
- Beside "Invitations" select Email To (Use this option if your primary calendar is not iCloud).
This may solve your problem if:
- Someone with an iDevice is sending your the invite.
- You have an iCloud account.
Here's what I found: when you send an iCloud calendar invite to someone's email address, if that address happens to be their AppleID username that is now also associated with iCloud, then Apple tries to outsmart the users, and routes that calendar invite instead to the recipient's AppleID/iCloud account calendar.
Here's a thread I started on it: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1267665
I have found when I do not include a location with the invite it goes through. I have even edited earlier invites and removed the location and the invite is received