@cyberzork I have also a CalendarFileHandler.app as a default. Not “em Client.app”
Still doesn’t work.
It always open a em client editor and saves meeting in em client calendar.
Ok if you have set the Mac OS Calendar as the default in your OS and it still opens the event in eM Client calendar, then the .ics file association carn’t be working in your Mac OS for some reason.
Have you tried changing the .ics file association via the Finder / Getinfo / Properties, and selected the Mac Calendar and clicked Change All ?
Also what Mac OS version do you have ?
Yup. Already changed directly to Calendar.app
Restarted em client and still same issue. It opens an invitation in em client editor.
Apple M1, macOS: Sequoia 15.2
Ok I will test it with settings the Mac Calendar app as default on my Mac Mini M1 with Sequoia.
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Yes you are correct, where no matter which Mac OS Calendar option is set as default in the OS Finder / File Info / Properties for opening .ics files as per the screenshot below, eM Client only opens the default internal account calendar within eM Client even after rebooting the Mac using the latest V10.1.4828 and Sequoia 15.x
However if i dbl-click the .ics file in the finder “after associating the Mac OS to Mac OS Calendar” file handler, it does open the Mac OS Calendar app and adds the .ics event ok. So the file association is definitely correct & working in the OS.
So appears eM Client doesn’t recognise the OS association for the .ics files “when the file is opened within an email in eM Client”, and needs the devs to have a look at that to get updated.
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@cyberzork Told ya 
Anyway. I am looking forward for a fix for this. WIll you report that or what do we need now?
WIll you report that or what do we need now?
No need to report that in a ticket as i’m sure eM Client would already be aware of this as per they do read the forum threads.
I will send an email though as well to query this and update this thread if a Sleekplan request would have to be made.
It could be that to bring up the CalendarFileHandler like Postbox as per your screenshot in your previous post “needs extra programming to eM Client” and “may not be a bug”.
I have been advised that this will need to have a Sleekplan request to be able to open the external Mac OS Calendar when you open .ics calendar files from within an eM Client email.
So it’s not a bug, just will require extra programming as I suspected to work. Just associating the Mac Calendar to .ics files in the OS is not enough and needs more coding to do that.
So go to the Sleekplan page and create a suggestion to do that. I would suggest a title eg: Open .ics calendar files with external Mac OS Calendar. Best you or @asn put that in as it’s not something I would need personally. Others can then vote if they also want that too.
In the meantime, you will either have to save the .ics files to your hard-disk and then dblclick that to open in your Mac OS Calendar, or drag it to your Mac Calendar in the Dock as @asn advised.
Or add your calendar to the eM Client Calendar.
@cyberzork There is one thing which i don’t understand.
Becuase at the beginning you wrote whole instruction how to save events in mac OS calendar.
If i proved that this doesn’t work on my computer. You asked about the mac OS version etc.
That is why you checked this on M1 with mac OS Sequoia.
So… if this works on other versions but not on sequoia (that is why you tried to reproduce issue). This means this is a bug. Am i right?
If this is a new feature - this would mean that saving in the native MacOS calendar does not work at all from the beginng. But then… i don’t understand why people on this forum clamis that this works and write the step by step guide. Because this is not a first topic about saving event in mac os calendar.
Even @asn wrote about it:
I see some misunderstanding here 
To be honest. There is one more option. Probably i won’t buy em client. Because i bought Postbox which as it turned out - it’s better for me. Especially when i have a lots of meeting invitations.
And i would think twice before i buy software where “issue” exists after 13 years
This issue has not been an issue for 13 years.
This thread post was originally related to opening a .ics calendar event file to add to eM Client calendar, which would then give you a prompt to add that to the built-in eM Client calendar with the event subject, date & time etc.
That was added years ago as @Michal_Burger posted in V4 at that time in 2012 near the top of this thread.
Now what you want is the ability to not only open an .ics calendar event file, “but also give you the option to add the calendar event to an external calendar” such as the Mac OS Calendar using the Calendar file handler like Postbox, which eM Client was never designed to do.
So to do that, you need to put in a Sleekplan suggestion for that (which is what I was advised you would need to do today by support), and then other users can then vote on that.
Ps If you don’t want to do that, then that’s up to you. Sry I carn’t help you any further with that.
@cyberzork Ok. But…
My every post contains information what i want to do. I repeated this couple times that i want open .ics file in native calendar app and stop using emclient internal calendar.
Despite that you wrote posts with screenshots etc. how to make things to work as i wanted?
So this is what i don’t understand. Becuase if this is something " which eM Client was never designed to do". So why don’t you wrote about this as a first answer to my post? 
It looks like we could avoid writing so many posts 
. If you have wrote immediately that EM Client has no such functionality.
@cyberzork i hope you at least give a vote up 
P.s I created a ticket - but it is “In moderation” status.
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Can you please update this thread when your sleekplan ticket appears on the site? I will then upvote it.
Yes. I want to do this. But i am waiting for ticket approval 
Fingers crossed
At the beginning you whole instruction how to save events in mac OS calendar.
If this is a new feature - this would mean that saving in the native MacOS calendar does not work at all from the beginng.
I initially showed screenshots how eM Client saves the .ics files when opened to the eM Client Calendar two ways as per what this thread was initially started for, but then discovered that you and @asn & maybe others in this thread wanted to be able to open the .ics files in the external Mac OS Calendar and not the built-in calendar.
You then showed the Mac OS Calendar opening in Postbox via a custom GUI (using the Calendar file handler in the OS). So I then presumed if the .ics file was associated in the OS to the Mac OS Calendar using the Calender file handler in the Properties of the file in the Mac finder, it should then in theory open the .ics file in the Mac OS Calendar when opened in eM Client as Postbox did.
So I tested that after you advised Postbox did open a GUI (as per your screenshot which shows the Calendar file handler), and found “it doesn’t work in eM Client which was really strange”, as it was associated in the OS and it did open the Mac OS Calendar if the .ics was dbclicked outside of eM Client.
So I then emailed support to see if that was a bug or not. Support advised it’s not a bug and to make that work would need a Sleekplan new feature request as it would require extra programming.
Don’t want to spend another minutes for this topic and arguing
You are right. Thanks for your help. I hope you will vote for this feature in next releases.
P. S I’m wondering how much time will take to check the reported issue by me in sleekplan
I’m wondering how much time will take to check the reported issue by me in sleekplan
Sometimes new Sleekplan requests can take a couple of days or so to update.
I checked tonight and the Sleekplan request / suggestion has now been added.
Yes. Thank you for attaching it.
@asn now you can give an upvote
@cyberzork as well.
And then… we wait