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[Edmund <912506@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I installed Ubuntu 12-04 LTS (beta) to check if a later version of evolution solved this.
Unfortunately no! one time I got a pop-up for a birthday, and it was gone by the next
boot!?
I like the look and feel of evolution and very much like this potential very useful option fixed.

Note 
In the an very old evolution ( that comes with ubuntu 10-04 ) I got the birthday reminders
working a little.  A pop-up showed up briefly when the exact time -for instance- 14 days,
BEFORE a birthday. After that it disappeared again, that cannot be the intention, the reminder
must stay there until the day of an event is passed or even manually checked out.

Edmund

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Title:
  Not getting reminders/alarms for birthdays/anniversaries/appointments

Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am using Evolution 2.28.3 which was installed with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
  When I execute  'apt-cache policy evolution', I get 'evolution:  Installed: 2.28.3-0ubuntu10.3'

  In my contacts, I have entered birthdays and anniversaries.  These events show on the Birthday & Anniversary calendar.  In my efforts to get the reminders to work, I also added some of these events to the Personal calendar.  In Edit/preferences/alarms, I have both calendars checked, and have tried "Display alarms in notification area only" checked and unchecked. 
  I am still not getting any reminders/alarms/sound/pop-up/notification/etc. 
  I have noticed that Evo calendar on the left side has the dates for these events in italics, and that the date/time applet has these dates in bold font (neither of which is very noticeable - a change in font color would be better).      
  Also, when I open an event in the personal calendar and make it "all day" and save, then open again, the changes are not saved.
  Lastly, since I have not seen a reminder, where is the "notification area"?
  Besides the calendar "reminders, et al" I would also like to have an email sent to me.  What do I need to do to get these to work?
  TIA,
  Bill

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-generic 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jan  5 15:33:42 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evolution

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