E-mail alarms always sent late

iCal has been consistently sending me e-mail alarms to late. Generally I set an alarm to send me e-mail about upcoming events 2 or 3 days beforehand, but iCal sends me the e-mail after the event has passed! "Message" and "Message with sound" alarms execute at the correct time. I know the computer is set to the correct date/time, because it syncs to a network time server. I know my Mail.app works fine-- I can send e-mail manually w/o delay. How do I get notifications of my upcoming events when I'm away from my desk computer (other than by buying a new PDA?!?!?)

I feel your pain....this enrages me! lol
The only way to make them send on my end is to have the mail application open the day of the event and then it sends to my email box which then comes to my blackberry. defeats the purpose but maybe the two of us are missing something. I may call apple care on this one....

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Good suggestion. Tried it but unfortunately it didn't work. it recreates the Outbox directory in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes when I open it. The directory no longer has anything in it (ie no info.plist of Massages folder).
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Pre-Leopard, the many e-mail reminder alarms I would set in iCal would always get sent in the background. But I've noticed in Leopard that Mail will bring the window for the alarm e-mail to the front just for a second or two when sending one. Aside from being a minor visual annoyance, if I'm in the middle of typing something (in a Pages doc, for instance), the Mail window pops up on screen and a few letters of whatever I'm typing get entered in the "To:" field, which then causes Mail to generate an error message telling me that "rty" (or whatever) is not a valid e-mail address. Duh.
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Austin Kinsella1 wrote:
The problem with this approach is that the script doesn't know what event has caused it to run, and so cannot include the detail "put the bin out tonight" unless you have a separate one for each event.
yes i realized this would be an issue.
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he knows his ID , if he did all whats in the link he can get his password back ?
how can i make him call applecare ? is there a way to speak to them from jordan ??
i have been trying to reach any1 in apple so they can communicate and help my friend (us) to make him remember it .
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So, Where sent messages are stored?
Because if I go into my email account nothing appears in the outbox?Of course not. Why would it appear in your e-mail reader's outbox when your e-mail reader did not send the e-mail ?
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