Meeting Invitation with iCalendar (EML)
A meeting-invitation email carrying an iCalendar (.ics) VEVENT with METHOD=REQUEST — for testing calendar-invite detection, ICS extraction, and RSVP handling.
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_iv_0003000000000000"
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: Maya Chen <maya@brightside.example>
To: Sam Rivera <sam@meridiansupply.example>
Subject: Invitation: Supply review call (20 Jan 2026)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0800
Message-ID: <invite-evt0042@brightside.example>
--=_iv_0003000000000000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
WW91IGFyZSBpbnZpdGVkIHRvOiBTdXBwbHkgcmV2aWV3IGNhbGwKMjAgSmFuIDIwMjYsIDE2OjAw
IFVUQyAoMzAgbWluKSwgdmlkZW8gY2FsbC4K
--=_iv_0003000000000000
Content-Type: text/calendar; method="REQUEST"; name="invite.ics"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="invite.ics"
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Novus Examples//EN
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:evt-2026-0042@brightside.example
DTSTAMP:20260115T090000Z
DTSTART:20260120T160000Z
DTEND:20260120T163000Z
SUMMARY:Supply review call
LOCATION:Video call
ORGANIZER;CN=Maya Chen:mailto:maya@brightside.example
ATTENDEE;CN=Sam Rivera;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:sam@meridiansupply.example
DESCRIPTION:Quarterly review of the standing supply order.
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
--=_iv_0003000000000000--
Specifications
- Structure
- multipart/mixed
- Attachment
- invite.ics (text/calendar; METHOD=REQUEST)
What is a .eml file?
An EML file is a single email message stored in the RFC 822 / MIME format — plain-text headers (From, To, Subject, Date, Message-ID) followed by the body, which may be plain text, HTML, or a multipart structure with alternative bodies and file attachments encoded in base64.
How to use this file
Use an example EML to test email header parsing, MIME decoding, HTML-part handling, attachment extraction, and EML-to-other-format conversion.
How to use this file for testing
“Meeting Invitation with iCalendar (EML)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Email parsing, Conversion testing. Standards-compliant RFC 822 messages — plain, multipart text+HTML, and with an attachment — plus an MBOX mailbox, for testing header parsing, MIME decoding, attachment extraction, and mailbox splitting.
Documented properties for this file: multipart/mixed. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Email fixtures use fixed dates, message IDs, and MIME boundaries so runs are reproducible, and every address is fictional. Test header parsing, MIME decoding, attachment extraction, and EML/MBOX conversion against the documented structure.
Code examples
from email import policy
from email.parser import BytesParser
msg = BytesParser(policy=policy.default).parse(open("meeting-invite.eml", "rb"))
print(msg["subject"], msg["from"])Related files
- emlEML — Calendar Invite (REQUEST)RFC 822 message with a text/calendar REQUEST attachment — for calendar invite importers.
- emlEML — Calendar Invite Cancel (CANCEL)Cancel twin for the SAMPLE calendar invite — same UID, SEQUENCE bumped, METHOD=CANCEL.
- icsICS — Meeting CANCEL SAMPLEStandalone SAMPLE iCalendar CANCEL for calendar parsers without MIME wrapping.
- icsICS — Meeting REQUEST SAMPLEStandalone SAMPLE iCalendar REQUEST for calendar parsers without MIME wrapping.
- emlBounce / Non-Delivery Report (EML)A bounce / non-delivery report (NDR) — a multipart/report message with a human-readable notice, a message/delivery-status part, and the original headers — for testing bounce parsing and delivery-status extraction.
- emlEmail with Attachment (EML)A multipart/mixed email with a base64-encoded CSV file attachment — for testing attachment detection, decoding, and extraction from an EML message.
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