384309 - Alarms for long past and future events all fire whenever I open Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Marc Richards]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 2.0.0.0 (20070326), Lightning 0.5RC (2007053004), Provider for Google Calendar 0.2.1

Alarms set on my remote Google Calendars of the type "popup" are triggered every time I open Thunderbird.  This happens for events that were in the past (7 - 20 days) and events that are in the future (more than 3 days away).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to remote calendar set up using "google apps for your domain"
2. Launch Thunderbird

Actual Results:  
Alarms get triggered for all events on my calendar

Expected Results:  
Alarms should only get triggered for events that are happening soon.

When I disabled the popup alarms using the google interface, that alarms went away.

Comment 1

[Shai Berger]

Similar here -- I only get alarms for events past or coming soon, but alarms will not stay dismissed unless I cancel them for the event via Google.

Thunderbird version 2.0.0.4 (20070604), Lightning 0.3.1 (build 2007021403), Provider for Google Calendar 0.2.1

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Is this bug still relevant?

Please enable calendar.debug.log in the advanced prefs editor and open your error console. After the initial loading is done, clear your console and click on the dismiss button in the alarm dialog. You should now see info related to setting the dismissed alarm.

Specifically, you should see a <gd:extendedProperty name="X-MOZ-LASTACK" value="..."/> that keeps track of when you last dismissed the alarm. Is this being set to the current time (in UTC) when you dismiss the alarm?

Please try this with a recent nightly (0.7pre) of lightning and the cvs version of the gdata provider (see bug 393853)

Comment 3

[Shai Berger]

With 0.7 (latest nightly Sunbird) and gdata-provider-2007-09-25-14.xpi the bug seems to be gone. I found no way to enable the logging in Sunbird, but the behavior was as expected.

Comment 4

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Great, marking WFM based on comment 3.

To enable logging, go to tools -> options -> advanced -> general -> config editor and create a new boolean value calendar.debug.log and set it to true.

Marc, if this problem persists for you, feel free to reopen.