Re: [Evolution] Hundreds of alarms

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 18:57, Dwight Tovey wrote:
> I recently re-installed my system with FC1.  I didn't bother to bring my
> old Evolution settings over from my old system since it was a simple
> matter to just configure on the the new system.  Yesterday I got gpilotd
> configured to let me sync my PDA and copied everything over from there,
> including my contacts and appointments.
>
> Today when I started Evolution, I suddenly lots of Evolution Alarm
> windows.  One for every appointment that was past the appointment time. 
> Since I've been using the PDA for a couple of years and I have weekly
> repeating meetings that I get notified about, this resulted in hundreds
> of windows popping up.  I got past it by running --force-shutdown
> instead of killing each window individually, but this was not really a
> good thing.
>
> I know the problem of alarms being triggered for past appointments has
> been discussed before.  Is there any resolution in sight?  It seems to
> me that it should be simple enough to (configurably?) tell Evo to ignore
> alarms that are over a certain age at startup.  It's really pointless to
> tell me that I had a metting 2 hours ago, let alone 2 months ago.
your problem is that there is no stored date for the last notification,
so the alarm daemon thinks the last notification was in 1/1/1970, so it
shows you all alarms since then :-(

It should probably just use the current time as the last notification
date if that setting is not set.

cheers