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[Stephen Eisenhauer <848968@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The same issue described here is present on Ubuntu 15.04 with the out-
of-the-box evolution 3.12.11, 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.

Copying this comment into a new bug ticket since this might be
considered a new case:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1480446

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Title:
  Google Calendar reminders display unnecessarily

Status in Evolution:
  Fix Released
Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in evolution source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When I add my google calendar account through the new Online Accounts
  feature I get an endless stream of notifications for all my calendar
  events going back some time .. perhaps a year.   Even after un-
  checking setting in the Calendar for "Show reminder notifications",
  shutting down using evolution --force-shutdown, cleaning up any evo
  processes and purging the .cache/evolution/calendar directory,  the
  reminders do not stop flooding in.    I expect it will be a long time
  until I stop getting them, since there are probably several a day
  going back years .. in multiple calendars.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: evolution 3.1.91-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.17-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 13 09:07:30 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evolution
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-09 (4 days ago)

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