Google Calendar synergy now generates email reminders 46

Odd, I've been getting those reminder emails from Google calendar since day one.

You need a reminder to buy and eat tacos?

I haven't noticed this at all. I guess I need to play around with it.

And one more thing, How often do you polish your dog?

been getting them since day one too.

Sorry to rain on the parade here, but I also have been getting Google calendar reminders since June 6th. I never used Palms calendar, only google calendar. I just set my notifications to sms instead..seems to be a little quicker.

I think that there is a difference in the way the alerts/alarms are handled, depending on whether the Calendar event was created directly on the Pre or on a PC through Google Calendar. I have received email & SMS alerts since day one for any events that I create in Google, but not ones that I created on the phone.

Maybe since the update, the on-phone created events now push back to Google in such a way as to enable the Google alerts to work??

no this is a 1.2 issue for me. my gcal notifications are set to popup only. the events i created on the phone have added an email alert to gcal. that is odd behavior.

I, too, have been getting email reminders since day one (June 5th for me)... and consider this to be one of the BEST features of the phone. In fact, I rarely use tasks anymore. I just set a gmail calendar event and then set the reminder to one of several choices: at start time, 15 min before, etc. I then get the alert reminder and a couple of seconds later an email to my gmail account. I delete the alert reminder, but will not delete the email reminder until I have actually completed the task or event. Again, this is a great feature, especially for those of us who are memory challenged!!!!!

There is a way to stop email reminders - On Google Calendar web interface.
1. Settings
2. Select calendars
3. Select notifications
4. Remove the default email reminder

For me I only leave pop-up reminder as a default - This seems to work for me.

for those who like this 'feature/bug', just set default calendar settings online to always send an email. That is after palm fixes this.

Thanks for this post. These calendar E-mails have been annoying me to no end. I've turned off all reminders in all Google calendars, but nothing stops the E-mails. I had considered filtering them out in Gmail, as you suggest, Derek, but that seemed like a silly thing to have to do. I wanted to stop them at the source. But since the consensus seems to be that there's no practical way to do that for now, I guess the filter is the only way to go.

late!

I've noticed something strange since the 1.2 updates. I'm not sure if it's the update, the tweaks, or if it was always like this but I just haven't noticed till now. Between 1.2 and 1.21, I webosdoctored my phone, applied the palm updates and installed the tweaks via Quick Install 2.72.

Now when I open an email the card pops up pretty quickly with the subject, but the body of the email is blank and takes 5 - 10 seconds to populate. This is with both new and previously viewed (from the phone) emails.

Has anyone else experienced this?

for me, gCal pop up alerts always showed up at the right time on my phone, but didn't appear as being set. They only appeared as being set in the web browser, until now.

there is no way of turning off these email alerts, other than disabling them through the web browser for each individual event, or each repeating series. It doesn't matter if you don't have email alerts set as your default reminder or not, new events created through your pre will automatically be issued one.

this was very annoying to me, and I spent some time trying to figure how to turn them off, but I guess for now there is no easy way out. I am glad that alerts are more properly stnced now though.

Thanks for this! I had been wondering the same thing. And thanks for the filter tip on how to do away with them (As I never use the email alert feature).

I usually add appointments to my work account through my pre so don't normally get this, but I added a reminder once to my google account and it notified me through my phone, my email, and my Google Talk pop-up on my computer's task bar, which I like because it's a constant reminder. Currently you can't snooze the reminder on your Pre for any specific set of time except for 5 min, and there was no visual notification (prior to tweak) if you weren't near your phone when it went off.

How do you create the rule in Google Calendars to read and delete the notifications from calendar-notification@google.com?

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UPDATE: Nevermind, I found out how to create the filter in Gmail. Thanks all!

I had a Pre for a few weeks. The minute keyboard and crappy battery life was the reason for my return.

Here is how you solve the problem of events that are already on your Google calendar made from your Pre. You must go to each and every event and edit it's details. You should see a few selection boxes on the right hand side. Click the "Remove" link next to the email reminder. That part of the problem, solved.

As for all new events made from the Pre automatically setting up an email reminder one day pre-event (pun intended), I couldn't tell you since I no longer own a Pre.

Note: The technique above did not work for me. I had "yes, but don't send event reminders until I have responded" selected, yet still continued to receive email reminders.

Best of luck to you all.