Q: My ical calender does not send email alerts anymore, now what?
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Nov 12, 2013 4:12 PMby cr8zy2bme,It seems that new appointments created in the new ical have no option to send alerts through e-mail, maybe this is why it no longer works.
I don't see anywhere in preferences where we can enable this feature which is rather annoying because I found this very useful in iCal as opposed to outlook.
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Nov 13, 2013 1:07 AMby Patrick___,Well actually you can:
If you create a new event, you select the option add alert, then you take custom. That gives you the option to select an email reminder! You have your email adres filled in, but the email does not come. I have had the reminder when I made the reminder for the next day or the day itself but not with repeating events.
Can you check how this is working for you? It is essential in how I work with iCal... I can't be alone in this one I guess....
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Jan 28, 2014 12:40 PMby david007hugh,Hi Patrick, I have the same problem as does everybdy else I guess - it just wont work!
I have set My Card in address book, tested it 100 times and whatever you do it ill not send an email alert? Everything I see on forums blah blahs about setting my card in address book and hey presto but none of it helps.
Someone MUST know if it will ever work or if it is another issues that apple will never resolve, instead they will just ruin a perfectly nice looking operating system by updating it and making my phone icons and notes / bookshelf etc look like it was bought from Toys R Us instead of an Apple store!
Did you find a solution to iCal not sending email alerts? DAVID.
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Feb 13, 2014 4:51 AMby Patrick___,Nope, it is not working.... I found new suggestions involving an icloud email but it does not work for me...
I am working around it now for the time being by not using iCal... lousy solution... another option is busycal, I used to run it on the background because I like iCal better. So I add tasks with an email reminder in iCal, it syncs with busycal and busycal sends me the **** email... I guess this makes pretty clear that there is a bug in iCal. It syncs with iCal and therefor it actually does send out the emails, but after the free trial it is 50 bucks for this workaround...
Apple needs to get this thing fixed...
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Mar 27, 2014 7:44 AMby LDRCF,Seems it sometimes does send me an email reminder and sometimes not.. Why that is I do not know but very irritating as I use this to remind me to pay bills and have missed payment due dates because of this. Apple please fix this problem! Of course everytime I do a "test" it works!
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Aug 1, 2014 5:22 AMby Danielle Perugini,Did anyone ever find a solution for this? Mine was working up until a couple weeks ago. I used it to remind me to complete certain tasks, pay bills, etc. and they've all stopped. I still get alerts that pop up on my phone, but no email. I've re-checked all the settings, which all look correct (they worked for years so I sort of knew they weren't the problem)...
Can we resurrect Steve Jobs?
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May 16, 2015 12:57 AMby lisafromcorydon,I'm not sure if it is the solution for anyone else. But here is what worked for me after I'd had several one to one sessions in the past 17 months to no avail at finding a solution. I had set up a new computer 17 months ago due to some icloud issues. (I am NOT an icloud fan) So I set up new computer at the Apple Store under their guidance. I use Thunderbird for mail and just haven't taken the time to switch full time usage to MAIL. I did set up the accounts in MAIL, however. Problem was the emails that needed to be sent on behalf of iCAL's set alarms could not go out because my password for outgoing emails in MAIL was not set. I'm doubting this is anyone else's solution because I'm betting y'all are using MAIL to send emails without any problems. When I went to send a test email from MAIL, it gave me a message that I needed to input my password for that account. As soon as I did input the password the email I was trying to send via MAIL did go out. So I went to MAIlL settings and added the password and saved it. Now the email reminders/alerts are being sent via MAIL and I am getting them on Thunderbird as I used to do. Check your iCAL pref and see what email address you have set for them to go to. Make sure that email address is set up in your MAIL or whatever you are using to get email. Make sure that MAIL (which is the ap used to send the outgoing alert/reminders) and iCAL both have the same email address/password/account info set up.
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Jun 7, 2016 3:46 PMby Deborah Desmone,This worked for me. And yes, the solution is a bit annoying. I changed my Apple ID, and email address because we went with a new provider. I lost all ability to add any alerts at all to the events I had set up. I used them to send reference information to people at an appointed time.
Make sure you add your new email address to Contacts on your own card. Don't edit the old one. Delete it and add your new one. Quit Contacts.
Quit Calendar and re-open it.
You'll have to delete the previous event you had created and create a new one. You should now have the option to add reminders including custom reminders, or emails. (if you put your list of people into Contacts under your card.)
It's a pain in the face to have to do, but it does fix it. I had one that went out to different people each week for the rest of the year. Now I have to spend time restoring them. Pooh.
~Deb
