I work in an environment where some people are using Microsoft Exchange and some people are not. The meeting invitations sent out by Exchange include a text/calendar attachment with the meeting information in iCal format. They also include an empty text/plain and an empty text/html part.
Is there any way to configure Exchange such that it will populate either (or both!) the text/plain or the text/html part with a human-readable version of the meeting summary? This would help out people using mail clients that do not have native support for text/calendar attachments.
Yes, you can do this, but the first way I am suggesting may be a crude hack.
Add transport rules that parse the meeting summary and add it to a disclaimer (temporarily), then use this same disclaimer as an addition to each message. As Exchange will add the disclaimer with a matching format, you can output it in an HTML and text friendly manner simultaneously via use of or other similar tags. HTML is not unreadable either.
An alternative way may be to create a mailbox that receives ALL meeting invites and then replies to a specific number of clients on the to/cc/etc with a text version of the same if they match a list of text-preferential users.