Dismissing reminder for recurring meeting removes from all instances

[Andrew Schepler]

See upstream bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews/-/issues/144 . It is reported as fixed in Evolution 3.40.

Using the Gnome Evolution email and calendar client with an Exchange account. When a reminder comes up for an instance of a recurring meeting which was added from an Exchange invite email, pressing the "Dismiss" button will remove reminders from all instances of that meeting, so that reminders do not appear for future instances.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: evolution-ews 3.36.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-72.80-generic 5.4.101
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat May 1 18:01:17 2021
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution-ews
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nathan Sweet (nate66s)]

This is a rather inconvenient bug -- it effectively makes the "reminder" feature in Evolution completely unreliable.