Calendar doesn't send email alerts on Mavericks

many thanks for the follow-up on this issue. I appreciate the feedback.

Ned C:

It is now working as expected. It must have been fixed in 10 9.2 update. Thank you Apple! Add event, then select the date dropdown and choose Custom.. yea!

I have the problem, too with Mavericks. I don't use iClod and I can't get email alerts - although I have selected in the 'custom' option.

And I should add that I have got the update to 10.9.2.

I have the problem, too with Mavericks. I don't use iClod

That maybe your problem now. It's working fine over here..

I'm able to get email alerts if I've created the event with my Google account (in the Calendar app). This started working after the update. However, I'm still not getting alerts created by the app, not attached to my Google account.

So it half works. I want it to work without needing the Google account. Like it used to.

This sounds like an iCloud thing… Are you on iCloud?

Yes I am using iCloud to sync calenders between Mac/iOS.

After adding the event and selecting the date drop down, do you not see "Custom" at the bottom? Here you can select Email alert..

Yes, I've done that. Tried different accounts etc. Spent about an hour with Apple Support doing this in many variations. Nothing worked at all then (about a month ago).

Sorry to hear it's not working for you. Not that this will do the trick for you and you probably did it already but have you tried repairing permissions? I use Disk Warrior and swear by it.. It has fixed quite a bit of anomalies in the past. Good luck!

Tried that as well. Still no go. I wonder why it works with my Gmail account but not within the app itself?

I think I finally sorted it out! This mail notification has driven me nuts!!!

My solution is, if you go to the webpage of google calendar, set up the reminder to 'pop-up' and remove the reminder of 'email', then every new event you created in icalendar will only be alerted by desktop notification. No more mail.app notification any more!!! Peaceful world!

Hope this helps!

But the purpose of this thread is to fix the problem so email notifications work.

LOL, true.......I was so deseperate and opened a lot relevant posts from google. I guess I replied to the wrong one... 😝