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What does Events no longer work on Thunderbird?

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jworks
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I use set reminders to myself using events. Now I set them and nothing happens. Time passes by the scheduled set time and no reminder shows up in my Inbox. Why?

I click Events and Tasks put a title in set the date and time Save & Close

I use set reminders to myself using events. Now I set them and nothing happens. Time passes by the scheduled set time and no reminder shows up in my Inbox. Why? I click Events and Tasks put a title in set the date and time Save & Close

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A dialog as I said before, a pop up window with the reminder. But it will only work if Thunderbird is running.

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Matt
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reminders appear as dialog, not an email. Are you confusing this with something Gmail does?

jworks
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Matt, I thought that scheduled Events use to be sent to my Inbox. Maybe you're right. I have used Windows Live Mail and I know it sends a message to the Inbox reminding me of an upcoming event. I thought Tbird did this too though.

However, T-bird has this feature: Go under Tools, Options, Calendar, Reminders. Under Reminders you have the choice for when a reminder shows up before a scheduled Event. What would this before if there is no pop-up feature or something in your Inbox to get your attention? Also, you can set to play a sound.

I think somewhere in T-bird either I don't have something set right; or a file is missing and maybe I should uninstall Tbird and download again. If I do that though I'll lose my contact list.

Matt
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Chosen Solution

A dialog as I said before, a pop up window with the reminder. But it will only work if Thunderbird is running.

jworks
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Thanks. Got it going now.