"Send an email" alarm option grayed out

[John Moser]

Binary package hint: evolution

1. Create an event in the Evolution calendar
2. Double-click the event to go through the details.
3. Hit "Alarms"
4. Add an alarm.
5. The alarm has a drop-down list for "Play a sound" "Display an alert" etc... one of these is "Send an email"

Notice that that last option is grayed. I can send e-mail from evolution, just not automatically by alarm. This is a VERY useful feature because you can e-mail switchboard@provider and have a cell phone ring or a blackberry go off (effectively adding SMS capabilities to Evolution).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * What ubuntu version do you use?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

It's reproducible.

1. Create an event in the Evolution calendar
2. Double-click the event to go through the details.
3. Hit "Alarms"
4. Add an alarm.
5. The alarm has a drop-down list for "Play a sound" "Display an alert" etc... one of these is "Send an email"

Notice that that last option is grayed. I can send e-mail from evolution, just not automatically by alarm. This is a VERY useful feature because you can e-mail switchboard@provider and have a cell phone ring or a blackberry go off (effectively adding SMS capabilities to Evolution).

Latest version of Ubuntu, all updates.

This is a very old issue, here's a thread from 2004 about it:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27812

Apparently nobody ever filed a bug, so here's a bug.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

confirming, same issue here, will have a look at the upstream bts, thanks for reporting John.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606306

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2009. Version not more supported.
change status to invalid.