ICal email reminders late

I used iCal for years on my old MacBook Pro, but since purchasing my new MacBook Pro, the email reminders I set up in iCal are being delivered a week late. Not sure what's up with that.
TIA,
RS

Yeah, same problem here. Used to work fine, but since I switched to Leopard (10.5.2), it hasn't worked yet. Mail sends emails fine, but doesn't via iCal. Not sure how to test or troubleshoot this besides using test events.
Anyone know of an iCal log somewhere?
Thanks,
(Ha! Mail just crashed, as I was typing this. I think I'll stick with Entourage. Anyway of telling iCal to use Entourage?)
(Maybe I'll just set up a Google Calendar and sync to that and have Google email me reminders. Jeez...)
-C

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*What determines the address iCal email reminders +are sent from+?*
On our g4 iMac, running Tiger, my wife has multiple pop3 email accounts. 6 to be exact.
She only has one address listed in her address book, and that is her own main primary address.
She recently started using iCal email reminders for reoccurring events. At first she was getting emails from her main address mailed to her main address. Works as planned.
But recently, she is getting reminders emailed to her main address send from one of her other POP 3 email accounts. This is not desirable. She needs them to come from her main address, the one that is her primary account and is listed in the address book. She is not sure what caused this change or why.
So the question is, what determines the address the email reminder is sent from and how can you change this to another address.
THX

Yes, that's what I thought too.
There is only one address besides the "APPLE" card in her book, and that is her primary address, and unfortunately, NOT the one her reminders are coming from.

Ical-email reminders sent late/post event

this is inconsistent, but ical often sends email reminders AFTER the date of the event - sometimes i set it for 3 days before & i get it the day after - no, my computer has not been asleep or off for those days... i am guessing this happens at least 1/3 to 1/2 of the time - help???

if ical is closed or the computer is in sleep mode, does that mean it won't send?
Yes. The application has to be running and your computer needs to be "awake" for anything to happen. It's not possible to take any action when your computer isn't in a state to take the action. That doesn't mean your screen needs to be lit; it can be blacked out by the screen saver after a few minutes of inactivity.
You can use an alarm, if you're at the computer, but the point of using the feature you describe is avoid having to be at your computer to make it happen. I've never used the feature, but I'm sure Apple tested it beforehand. Even so, you should test it by using it to send emails to one of your email accounts (not the one you're sending from) before using it for something important.
Mulder

Ical email reminders get marked as junk

I have many repeating (weekly) email reminders set up in ical and every time one is sent Mail marks it as junk. I have my junk rules set up to allow email addresses from my address book (which has me in it). Am I doing something wrong? Has anybody else had this problem? Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions,
However, when my MacBook Pro goes to sleep, the networking shuts down, and no emails are sent until I get to work and wake it up.
Hm. True enough. It wouldn't be asleep if it was still sending out emails in the background
1) Is there a way to get iCal to send out reminders when the computer is sleeping?
No way that I know. Sleep by definition means the computer's functions are suspended. The system would have to wake, spinning up the hard drive and loading the OS so that iCal could then trigger an email, and then go back to sleep.
2) If not, is there a way to forward my iCal events to Google Calendar? I can download Google Calendar to iCal, but I can't seem to push stuff to Google Calendar.
If you add your Google Calendar to iCal you should be able to put all your events into that calendar. That calendar is CalDAV so it will be updated on the Google server and then also update any other systems that are reading that calendar (Linux and otherwise)
If you are unable to make changes to your Google calendar in iCal I would suggest you remove it and re-add it.
Hope that helps.

ICal email reminders are not sending

My email reminders from iCal are executing but they are remaining in the outbox and are not sending. I'm not sure why. In order to send them I have to open up each one individually and send them.
I'm on 10.5.2 and using a .mac account.

Yeah, same problem here. Used to work fine, but since I switched to Leopard (10.5.2), it hasn't worked yet. Mail sends emails fine, but doesn't via iCal. Not sure how to test or troubleshoot this besides using test events.
Anyone know of an iCal log somewhere?
Thanks,
(Ha! Mail just crashed, as I was typing this. I think I'll stick with Entourage. Anyway of telling iCal to use Entourage?)
(Maybe I'll just set up a Google Calendar and sync to that and have Google email me reminders. Jeez...)
-C

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Sending email reminders to other people?

Hi.
I use iCal to keep a schedule that colleagues are supposed to submit their work. I'd like to have iCal automatically send them an email reminder the day before it's due, but of course iCal only allows you to send emails reminders to yourself (and I don't feel like adding an extra 13 email addresses to my VCard)...
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Hey guys!
I'm trying this too. I found a site earlier where someone claimed to have written an AppleScript to do this - however, the download link was dead and the page hadn't been updated in several months.
I tried John's suggestion. For some reason when I attempt a redirect, I just get a Mailer Daemon error saying the email I put in didn't exist...however if I set the rule to FORWARD the email (to the EXACT same email address) everything went through fine.
It's a band aid - but forwarding may work. Anyone else have some other ideas?

Google calendar email reminders

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Hi. Saw this brief write up a couple of days ago, and it looks like this is not going to get better real quick. I dont have a solution, only agreement that the problem is real.
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/10/google-and-icloud-calendars-dont-play-nicely-toge ther/

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please help!!!!

Hi,
I'm new to iCal and Macs. I setup a test event and an email reminder to be sent for it he day before. I also intentionally turned my Macbook Pro off at the time the email reminder was scheduled to be sent. As a result the reminder was not sent. And even now when I have turned my MBP on, the reminder has not been received in my mail.
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ICal and reminders on Macbook don't sync with iCloud

Just now when iCal crashed on my MacBook Pro I realise that it hasn't been syncing with iCloud (lost al lot of appointments).
Any change made on my iPad, iPhone and on icloud.com syncs perfectly; even back to my macbook!
The rest on my laptop (notes, iWork apps, mail, contacts) all seem to work and sync perfectly with iCloud.
However iCal and Reminders made on my laptop just don't sync to iCloud!
The other way around works nicely (reminders and calendar appointments from iPad, iPhone and iCloud.com appear promptly on the macbook).
I have tried everything i could find (restarting computer, resetting icloud prefferences, log out and in from icloud, starting new calendar, checking icloud account). Nothing works...
Any change made from my macbook just doesnt make it to other devices. From other devices back to my mac do work.
On my macbook all calendars I have are in iCloud.
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I have something similar and i will try to explain with my rusty english.
I have an ID on iCloud but i can't sync the iCal events.
On my mac there is everythign (appointment, notes birthdays and so on). On my iCloud there is nothing.
I suppose was something related with the old ID (one just for ichat, not one of the ID that you pay to receive extra services or a @me.com account).
Now, as soon as the icloud features was installed on my Macbook Air I signed a new ID and initially everything worked fine. Emails on Mail and contacts were syncronized properly but with the new ID. i did not check iCal account.
So i tried also with the old one (the ichat ID) and all was sync. So i realized that maybe Apple recognized same account or name and merge all the ID in just one.
I was wrong.
The 2 ID's are not linked.
further checks add also this new weird stuff. in any case i cant sync ical accounts. i tried to switch from one to another ID. no way. i checked preferences in iCal on the mac. everything is fine. no way.
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Help! I just set up a new machine and synched my calendar using mobile me. All my old email reminders... from several years... are now being resent! It seems to be happening in batches, and when a new batch occurs, it takes over my machine and it's hard to get anything else done. Plus extremely annoying.
How can I turn this off, fix it, something?
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And it's worse - I closed iCal, reopened, and it's sending all the *same* notifications again! Argh... Will I ever be able to use iCal again?
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Creating automated email reminders to users every 2 weeks via Workflow 2010 Out of Box approach only

Hi,
I have been asked to automate the email reminders to users (every two weeks) from the SharePoint2010 solution.
I am trying to achieve this via workflow ,but am unable to get the results.
Req :
Twice a month the users should get an automated email reminder for a specific task.
1. On 14th (or last working day in mid month -1) of the month. ( a field "mid month end" captures the date as 15th of the month)
2. On last working day - 1 of the month. ( a field "month end" captures the date as last day of the month)
Please let me know how i can achieve this via Out of box functionality. I donot have exp with workflows so a detailed steps guidlines will be very helpfull.
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SharePoint does no offer to run a workflow on all items in a list/library -- which I feel is a big draw back.
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Since this functionality does not come out of the box with SharePoint 2010, this free tool is a real gem.
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