Reminders [Was: Re: [OGo-Users] RE: Sunbird RC1 Released - CalDAV bug persists]

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>   The only reason I've been wanting to run Sunbird (besides personal
> preference) is the reminder functionality.  For many people email
> reminders aren't an acceptable substitute, 

Agree;  there are a couple of solutions.

1.) There is the 'notification CC' address in the user's preferences.
If you live in an area where an e-mail to sms gateway is available that
makes an interesting solution.  For example, Verizon customers in the
USA, can e-mail to {phonenumber}@vtext.com and the message is delivered
to the appropriate phone as a text message - which makes a good
alert/reminder system.

2.) You can construct your own notification system entirely using Perl,
Python, .NET, etc... and calling zogi.getNotifications if you are
running a current version of ZideStore/zOGI.
http://code.google.com/p/zogi/wiki/getNotifications
Then you can process the notifications anyway you like.  For example, we
send notifications to an XMPP (IM) server so the user gets a reminder
pop-up on their screen.  And we send the reminder via e-mail, including
to the user's notification CC.  This replaces the regular OGo
notification cron job;  zogi.getNotifications uses the same Logic to
acquire and clear notifications,  it just leaves the how and when to
send notifications up to you.

> and I understand from what
> I've read that the Outlook /w connector won't produce reminders either.

Correct.

>   I remember another program from Skyrix being mentioned which was
> purely a reminder applet.  Is this still available, and is it still
> the only option for getting a realtime reminder under Windows?

I've heard that program mentioned, but never seen it.  If I recall the
advice was to contact Skyrix support for a copy of the program.