cannot turn on alarm for meeting received via email

Thanks for the report, those are automatically subscribed here with an alarm i cannot confirm that issue,

If I understand this correctly, this is the same issue as upstream bug #594153 "setting alarms on meetings owned by others is prevented".

There is patch attached to that bug. AFAIK the upstream will not update 2.28, they moved to 2.30. May be Ubuntu will be willing to apply that patch to it's own packages?

The upstream bug is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594153

Don't know how to link this bug to upstream one.

Upstream bug comments this was tested on Ubuntu Lucid. Any chance of getting this added to a Lucid update and/or PPA?

This is a showstopper for migrating desktops in our exchange-based environment.

From upstream
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Also committed to gnome-2-28 branch by request. Distros will have to pick this up for themselves though.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-28&id=22e540a225da939e9de02912d638402d2353b129
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the bug has been fixed upstream now

pushed in -proposed, waiting for ack:

evolution (2.28.3-0ubuntu10) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * add debian/patches/91_allow_setting_alarms_on_any_meeting_1.patch,
    92_allow_setting_alarms_on_any_meeting_2.patch,
    93_allow_setting_alarms_on_any_meeting_3.patch:
    - from upstream git, enable setting alarms on meeting and ungrouping
      those actions (LP: #528557)

TestCase:
- send an email appointment
- accept it
- go the calendar view and edit it
- see that you can add an alarm event and edit it

Accepted evolution into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Hi
I confirm the bug fix :)

Thanks

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.28.3-0ubuntu10

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evolution (2.28.3-0ubuntu10) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * add debian/patches/91_allow_setting_alarms_on_any_meeting_1.patch,
    92_allow_setting_alarms_on_any_meeting_2.patch,
    93_allow_setting_alarms_on_any_meeting_3.patch:
    - from upstream git, enable setting alarms on meeting and ungrouping
      those actions (LP: #528557)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:31:56 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.30.2-0ubuntu1

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evolution (2.30.2-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Proxy login window is not in focus. (Vibha Yadav)
    - Mail inline parser doesn't always work (Milan Crha) (LP: #219104)
    - [new-mail-notify] Intermittent notifications (Milan Crha)
    - SIGSEGV in e_plugin_mono_register_type (bnc)
      (Chenthill Palanisamy)
    - Use camel_init() to initialize NSS consistently (David Woodhouse)
    - Don't overwrite Date: header when writing Fcc (David Woodhouse)
    - New folder window is not in focus in filter dialog (Milan Crha)
    - Allow setting alarms on any meeting (Jim Ramsay) (LP: #528557)
    - Reopened drafts shouldn't ask for save without change
      (Milan Crha) (LP: #510529)
    - Custom headers not displayed in message preview (Milan Crha)
    - Calendar view not remembered (Milan Crha)
    - Can't drag and drop multiple attachments (Matthew Barnes)
    - 'Mark as junk' should be disabled in junk folder (Milan Crha)
    - Crash in em_format_snoop_type (Michel Dänzer)
    - No copyright/licensing information for geo-utils (Cedric Bosdonnat)
    - Use cached table row height rather than recalculate (Michel Dänzer)
    - Reduce junk icon size (LP: #582839)
    - Preview pane's attachment bar accepts drop (Matthew Barnes)
    - Use contact's free/busy URL only when not empty (Holger Mickler)
    - New task pop up in calendar day view doesn't work (Matthew Barnes)
    - Don't display attachment size if it's unknown (Matthew Barnes)
    - Evolution allows moving IMAP Inbox to other folders (Milan Crha)
    - Force 24h format for locales not supporting 12h format
      (Gert Michael Kulyk)
    - Set translation domain for e-mail-reader actions (Gert Kulyk)
    - System timezone label not initialized in preferences (Matthew Barnes)
    - Crash printing contacts in List View (Bharath Acharya)
    - Quits without asking user to save unfinished messages
      (Milan Crha) (LP: #572962)
    - Various data file cleanups (Matthew Barnes)
    - Missing icon in alarm dialog (Matthew Barnes)
    - Mobile Phone of imported contacts not shown in preview (Milan Crha)
    - "Mark All Messages as Read" shortcut missing (Matthew Barnes)
    - Crash when viewing/closing messages quickly (Matthew Barnes)
    - Mailer's crash avoidance features are broken (Matthew Barnes)
    - mail_shell_backend_sync_store_cb() has wrong signature (Jonathon Jongsma)
    - GtkHTML color settings not being honored (Matthew Barnes)
    - system_tz_label is not translated in cal-prefs-dialog
      (Gert Michael Kulyk)
    - EventEditor: Disconnect signal handlers before disposing model
      (Matthew Barnes)
    - Next/prev shortcuts should focus message list (Matthew Barnes)
    - Checkbox in vfolder deletion prompt is saved backwards (Matthew Barnes)
    - Improve auto-selection of messages (Matthew Barnes)
    - Due date is not displayed in message list (Matthew Barnes)
    - Use default headers when none stored to display in mailer (Milan Crha)
      Fix a typo on Makefile.am that prevents installation of a big
      chunk of the stock icons (Fridrich Štrba)
    - Cr...