With the landing of bug 373380, Lightning will now attempt to send invitations to any attendees you may have added to the attendee list of your event. These invitations have been tested with the latest versions of iCal.app and Outlook....
Clint Talbert (ctalbert) of SimDesk and I, with some help from one of Dave Humphrey's Seneca students, Eva Or, have been working intensely on improving iTIP/iMIP support in Lightning. In non-acronym speak, this means adding support for accepting and declining...
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