[Evolution] Evolution stopped showing reminders before start of appointment.

["Juan R. de Silva" <juan r d silva gmail com>]

I used to set a custom reminder on my appointments to pop up an alert 2 
days before start of appointment and to be repeated 6 extra times every 8 
hours. It worked for me for last 7 years without a glitch.

About 3-4 months ago this behaviour changed. No one reminder shows up 
before appointment as requested. Instead all expected 6 reminders pop up 
on the day of the actual appointment as soon as I boot my system, 
independently of the time of the appointment.

I experience the same problem under Debian Wheezy (GNOME Classic) - 
Evolution 3.4.4, Ubuntu 14.10 (Unity) and Xubuntu 14.10 - Evolution 
3.10.4.

I spent endless time on google without any results. There are a lot of 
screaming about Evolution reminder problems, neither one is exactly as 
mine, and no one reported a solution to any of the problems I've read 
about. I posted the problem on Debian list and get a complete silence in 
response - like nobody ever heard about Evolution, or everybody is 
totally happy with it, which I, after googling for over a month, doubt.

Can anyone help with this, please? Boy, are the GNOME folks on special 
mission to destroy everything that has been achieved so far? Evolution 
has been such a nice PIM.