Do all blackberries have some kind of support for email attachment addition of calendar appointments?

Question

Does blackberry support the addition of appointments sent as attachments via email or MMS like the iCalendar format?

iCalendar (aka RFC 2445) has the file extension *.ics or *.vcs (v2.0, v1.0 respectively). I cannot find a solid answer/evidence (E.G. RIM publication) as to whether, and to what degree, Blackberry supports this standard.

I created a simple.ics file and sent it as a mail attachment to my blackberry. I get error "This attachment type cannot be viewed on your device". I also tried sending via MMS and following the procedure for opening iCalendar files on the blackberry 9800. I have a blackberry Tour (9630) and the procedure doesn't work for me.

If anyone has any solid documentation (not forum postings) with an answer that would be awesome. I'm open to ideas/suggestions. We do have a BES server.

Answer 1

Found this online, basically you want to modify the ICS file to work with your Blackberry as follows:

1. Download the ICS file to your PC
2. Edit the ICS file using a text editor and add METHOD:REQUEST (or replace METHOD:PUBLISH with METHOD:REQUEST)
3. Forward the modified ICS file to your blackberry.