Re: [Evolution] calendar reminder alerts on external calendars

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:15 +0000, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> Hi,
> I really liked evo calendar so i set it up on my fedora 12 box. i added two 
> remote calendars to it, one .ics on local system and one caldev. Everything's 
> fine, the calendar shows entries from all three. However, the reminder alert 
> only works for local evolution meetings, and not the .ics or caldev calendars. 

This is a feature not a bug.  iCalendar (specifically VEVENT) alarms are
a rather tragic part of the specification [RFC2445/5545 not Evolution].
iCalendar alarms should only be processed for local calendars.  See also
section 3.1.2 of the GroupDAV-01 spec for concurrence.

To properly do alarms your *server* should handle them -or- the client
should store the alarms locally [not sending them to the server, and
scheduling them itself].  AFAIK this doesn't work for the great majority
of client/server combinations.  In no case does the user generally get
the behavior they expected.

> Is there a way I can make it work for all. I've gone thru preferences repeatedly
>  and played around a while, but no luck.
> This on 2.28.3. 
> Thanks a lot. Please cc me on replies, as I'm not subscribed.

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