Mail - Alarm

I am trying to move all of my gmail services to iCloud. When I pull up Mail it starts flooding my screen with Alarms for Google calendar. How can I stop this?

you can set your rule to run an apple script and that apple script can do what you need. for example to run a specific song (American Idiot in the example) from itunes use the following script.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "iTunes"
activate
play track "American Idiot" of playlist "Library"
end tell</pre>
paste the script into Script Editor and save it as a script.

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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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wow, that's really cool!
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Hi all
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Message was edited by: Serge Lebel

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