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[Stephen Eisenhauer <1480446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

See first:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/848968

The same issue described in #848968 is present on Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid)
with the out-of-the-box evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3, with slightly
different steps to trigger it:

1. Opened Evolution
2. Switched to Calendar view
3. Right-clicked in the calendar list and chose "New Calendar"
4. Selected "On The Web"
5. Provided an iCalendar URL (from a Google Calendar with 1+ year of events)
6. Cleared the "user" field
7. Clicked "OK"

OSD notifications were immediately enqueued for seemingly all of the
calendar's past events, starting with the oldest, which were all
displayed one-by-one.

Two things wrong here:

1. There is no useful reason to trigger a notification for a past event (*maybe* events in the last hour would be relevant).
2. Events fetched from a remote calendar during an initial download should probably be exempt from various triggers/hooks that cause things like notifications and reminders to be processed. This might be moot if the previous point is addressed.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- evolution produces old notifications
+ Old notifications are triggered when adding a remote calendar

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Title:
  Old notifications are triggered when adding a remote calendar

Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  See first:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/848968

  The same issue described in #848968 is present on Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid)
  with the out-of-the-box evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3, with slightly
  different steps to trigger it:

  1. Opened Evolution
  2. Switched to Calendar view
  3. Right-clicked in the calendar list and chose "New Calendar"
  4. Selected "On The Web"
  5. Provided an iCalendar URL (from a Google Calendar with 1+ year of events)
  6. Cleared the "user" field
  7. Clicked "OK"

  OSD notifications were immediately enqueued for seemingly all of the
  calendar's past events, starting with the oldest, which were all
  displayed one-by-one.

  Two things wrong here:

  1. There is no useful reason to trigger a notification for a past event (*maybe* events in the last hour would be relevant).
  2. Events fetched from a remote calendar during an initial download should probably be exempt from various triggers/hooks that cause things like notifications and reminders to be processed. This might be moot if the previous point is addressed.

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