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[Philipp Kewisch]

Hello Postbox users.

As you may have noticed, the old version of the Provider for Google Calendar does not work since November 17th. This is because Google pulled the plug on the v1 API which versions 0.32 and such have been using.

The new version, 1.0.2, only works on applications using the Mozilla Platform version 24 and above. I may be wrong, but I believe Postbox 3 uses the Mozilla Platform version 7. As this is not an issue with the addon itself but with the platform version, I'd suggest asking the Postbox folks for support. There is a thread on the Postbox forums that offers a version 1.0, but I haven't checked what changes have been made and some users have reported it doesn't work. Backporting the Provider to the Mozilla Platform version 7 is likely a substantial amount of work.

I have contacted a few folks at Postbox and we will see how to move forward. In the meanwhile, please use their support forums for questions. If you are experiencing issues that happen just the same in Thunderbird, feel free to use this forum for questions.

Philipp

[martin weiß]

Thanks Philipp for bringing Light into this. Unfortunately Postbox doesn't seem to address this issue - and there is no Support Forum either. Your link is to a Post from April 2014. Lightning 1.0 for Postbox stopped working as of yesterday. I already tried to contact Postbox via Bug Report and Feature Request. No response so far. As there is no other way to get in touch (to my knowledge) it would be very interested in their response to your approach. Thanks for your work! Keep on
best regards
Marty   

[Philipp Kewisch]

Another quick update: I've checked the Provider that is for download on the Postbox forum. To make things more confusing, what they advertise as "version 1.0" is actually a repackaged variant of the Provider for Google Calendar 0.18pre. This explains why it stopped working on Monday.

We will have to wait for an outcome on your support requests an me contacting them.

Philipp

[Yannick Huberty]

I posted a Bug Report this morning regarding this issue, until now without a response. The more people reporting this, the more urgent it may seem to PostBox...

Regards.

Yannick

[Catalina Salvatierra]

Thanks Phillip, for sharing this information. Hopefully we'll have more answers soon from the Postbox developers. In the meantime I have not found a workaround since caldav doesn't seem to work properly with postbox's lightning...

[Daniel Santoro]

Also having this issue - updated Lightning and the Provider plugins but no luck. Here's hoping Postbox rolls out an update :)

[Jacquelyn Cary]

I'm currently using Provider in Thunderbird and still having issues. I upgraded to the 1.0.2 version but when I try to add a new Google calendar through my network it doesn't provide an option to insert my ICAL link. When I click next to choose from my list of calendars, the page is blank. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Provider and Llightning multiple times yesterday and today with no changes. My entire office uses this addon and we love it so much. Please let me know if there's another way to make my calendars pop up and I'll try it, if not I'll wait for the next version to be launched.
Thank you

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hey Jacquelyn,

please head over to one of the two threads about your specific issue and check the initial post and replies there.

Philipp

[Philipp Kewisch]

Dear Postbox users,

the Postbox folks are really responsive and are working on a solution. Please stay tuned!

Philipp

[marty909]

Good news ... More Infos here: http://support.postbox-inc.com/hc/en-us/articles/203635800

[Daniel Santoro]

No news yet :(

Anyone know of a good Windows program I can use that aggregates calendars from multiple gmails in the meantime? Can't tell you how many meetings I've missed already!

[dave ladd]

Thank you Philipp... great info...

[Sylvia Crain]

I can still *see* my Google calendars with the Posbox calendar, I just can't add events - I get a modification error.  So, I have to go to my smart phone and add the events to my Google calendar which will then show in Postbox.  Not very convenient, and Postbox takes awhile to show an event, but it does work.  I will be very happy when this gets fixed!

Sylvia

[Roger Smith]

Thankyou for your efforts Philipp - I hope this gets resplved soon as we to use the Provider for Google throughout our office infrastructure. 

[Lorne Richard]

Until Postbox is updated... I found a Chrome app that does this; called Sunrise. it works well to aggregate Gmail and Google Apps calendars. It also shows any secondary calendars that you've setup; such as birthdays, sports teams, Holidays. 

it launches as a web app. Just pin the page to your desktop or taskbar. 

You can find the app in the Google web store. 

 "Sunrise Calendar": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sunrise-calendar/mojepfklcankkmikonjlnidiooanmpbb?utm_source=gmail

[Dave Ladd]

Thanks Lorne,
I tried it and it works great. I like the task bar icon..
It'll do  for the interim..
Dave

Lorne Richard wrote:

Until Postbox is updated... I found a Chrome app that does this;
called Sunrise. it works well to aggregate Gmail and Google Apps
calendars. It also shows any secondary calendars that you've setup;
such as birthdays, sports teams, Holidays.
it launches as a web app. Just pin the page to your desktop or taskbar.
You can find the app in the Google web store.
"Sunrise Calendar":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sunrise-calendar/mojepfklcankkmikonjlnidiooanmpbb?utm_source=gmail



On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 10:15:14 UTC-5, Daniel Santoro wrote:

    No news yet :(

    Anyone know of a good Windows prog ram I can use that aggregates

    calendars from multiple gmails in the meantime? Can't tell you how
    many meetings I've missed already!

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Many thanks for doing the research and sharing this with us. It works like a charm and will do for now...

[jgei...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your efforts Phillipp and keeping us informed. Are you planning to adapt any of your other add-ins to Postbox?

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 6:50:10 AM UTC-5, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

[Philipp Kewisch]

If you have a particular addon in mind that you'd like adapted let me know and I'll see if I can find time.

Philipp

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hello Fans of Postbox,

I present you with a new version of the Provider for Google Calendar that is compatible with Postbox! I haven't gone through much QA yet, but I wanted to get this out to you as early as possible. Please head over to the following bug and test the attached xpi. For feedback I'd appreciate if you could comment on the bug.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106047

Regards,
Philipp

[Catalina Salvatierra]

It works like a charm. Thanks for being so quick about this! :)

[Daniel Santoro]

Awesome work! Connected all of my calendars (and it was actually a little easier than before). High five!

[Sylvia Crain]

Took a few contortions on my part to get my calendars into the google formal - I used to be able to use ical - but seems to be working like a champ now!  Thanks so much!!!

Sylvia

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[Paul Walker]

Sir, I'm having some trouble installing your new add-on version: see my screenshot attached. I don't know how to fix it. I'm also new to Google Groups, so please help or tell me who to ask, where to ask,  etc.

 

[Philipp Kewisch]

Paul, could you uninstall and reinstall the Provider addon? The error message suggests you have the old Provider version installed, but the URI suggests you are using the new one. Be sure you are installing the addon from the linked bug.

Philipp

[Myles Milner]

Philipp,

 

I left some info on your bug for the new provider. I seems that I am having the worst of it.

Myles 

[Roger Smith]

Well done Phil

There was an initial delay where Postbox went through a few "not responding" cycles - possibly as it was downloading info to Postbox calendar - which were fixed by closing and reopening Postbox and just being patient while numerous calendars (10) and reminders (hundreds) were loaded.  After I dismissed previously dismissed reminders (ie. dismissed before the Provider link was broken) the new Provider seems to be working fine without any bugs.  

Congratulations to you Phillip and to Postbox for working with you to rectify this issue that was caused by our wonderful "friends" at Google - great team effort

cheers

Roger

[I. H.]

Thanks a lot for your work and your help.

You realize when something is gone how helpful is something

Regards

I.H.

[Ken Jude]

Hi

I have the new Beta for Postbox running on three machines and all seems to be good here so far. Thanks for your quick work getting a fix out for this.

[Dave Ladd]

GREAT JOB...
I installed it yesterday - and so far it's working well for me.
I did notice that I got the "not responding" during the install and initial synchronization - but it turns out it was downloading the calendar info - as well as generating the past three years (back to 2011) worth of my calendar notifications.

It took a few repeats of "Dismiss All" to eliminate all the pending notifications - but it was no big deal.
GREAT JOB...

Thank you !
Dave Ladd

Ken Jude

Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:54 AM

Hi

I have the new Beta for Postbox running on three machines and all seems to be good here so far. Thanks for your quick work getting a fix out for this.

[Sylvia Crain]

I just posted the following to the Bugzilla bug for this issue:

Have been using the updated provider for several days now and has worked well.  My husband and I share a Google calendar on two laptops using Postbox as well as using the same Google calendar on our phones.  We use Postbox on Window 7 and are running 3.0.11.

Today I changed one instance of a recurring event to an alternate time.  I did this change from Postbox and it apparently completed the change as I can see the change on my Google calendar and on my phone - both the recurring events at the normal time and the recurring event at the modified time. However, all occurrence of the task - the recurring events and the alternate event time for on event have been deleted from my calendar.

I have reload the calendar, closed Postbox and reopened, turned on the debug logging and found no errors.

Any thoughts on how to resolve this issue?  Let me know if you need more information.

Sylvia

Sylvia Crain wrote:

Took a few contortions on my part to get my calendars into the google formal - I used to be able to use ical - but seems to be working like a champ now!  Thanks so much!!!

Sylvia

Philipp Kewisch wrote:

Hello Fans of Postbox,

I present you with a new version of the Provider for Google Calendar that is compatible with Postbox! I haven't gone through much QA yet, but I wanted to get this out to you as early as possible. Please head over to the following bug and test the attached xpi. For feedback I'd appreciate if you could comment on the bug.

https://bugzilla.mozilla..org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106047

Regards,
Philipp

[Dave Ladd]

I may have spoken too soon.
I have a recurring mtg - that I moved to 2 weeks following the regular day.

That shows up properly in the chrome calendar extension that I (some of us) was using for a work-around.

But in this Beta Postbox release - the original recurring mtg is showing at the "regular" day- and not on the revised day....not sure what happened..
Dave Ladd

Dave Ladd

Saturday, November 29, 2014 5:03 PM

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hi Dave,

sorry for the trouble with the recurring meeting. This is a known issue and also happens to Thunderbird folks, see the topic on events not being displayed. Please avoid changing recurring meetings from Lightning for now, this will be fixed in the final version and hopefully next prerelease.

Philipp

[Dave Ladd]

No problem at all Phillip. Thank you..

Dave..

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[Roger Smith]

Hi Phil

All going well apart from an odd change from previous version:  The Reminder pop up box still works as per the previous version but in the past I would manually dismiss each individual event reminder to make it go away after I had acted on the reminder .  What happens now is that each event reminder dissappears automatically on the day after the event which means I am no longer being reminded of events I have not completed. This was one of the great things about the previous version - reminders kept popping up until I manually dismissed them.  Can this be reinstated?

cheers

Roger

On Saturday, 29 November 2014 00:39:14 UTC+11, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

[Robert Garland]

Worked on first try.  TTHHAANNKK YYOOUU!!

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 6:50:10 AM UTC-5, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hi Folks,

please head over to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106047 and download the second prerelease. It contains some important fixes and I would like everyone to upgrade and let me know how it works for you.

Thanks,
Philipp

[Dave Ladd]

Hi Philipp,
 I'm still on the email version you sent me yesterday.

 This morning I have a "double" notification for a weekly recurring Wed mtg/event...
You can see that it only has the single default reminder - (for some of my mtgs/events, I have multiple reminders)

Philipp Kewisch

Wednesday, December 03, 2014 9:22 AM

[Zeke Mandel]

Installed the new code.  I had multiple calendars on Postbox and it gets locked up trying to bring up the login page for the 2nd of my 4 calendars.  Now, I can't uninstall the plugin and I can't use postbox because postbox hangs if I close the window.  How can I uninstall the plugin without running postbox?

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hi Zeke,

if you have v2 installed, please just be patient until all events have loaded. This can take a while, I've heard reports of at least 20-30 minutes with a large calendar. I'm still trying to find out why its blocking the UI. Once its done, the Provider will do an incremental sync, so only changes are transferred. It will be fast afterwards.

Philipp

[Roger Smith]

Hi Philip

Uninstalled first version then installed the version 2.  Worked immediately with no lag and no need to re-login to Google account.  Currently working on all 7 calendars.  Will post again if any problems.

Well done and thankyou for your work

Is there any way we can donate to this?

cheers

Roger

[dave ladd]

Someone mentioned contributions for Philipp - he's been very responsive and I really didn't even know who he was until we got into this.

I just contributed at this link for his work on the "Provider for Google Calendar" that we're all using. I think it's a great product and well worth some monetary support. You really don't realize how much we've come to rely on it - until it doesn't work !!!.. Thanks again Philipp...Here's that link..

 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/

[Roger Smith]

Thanks Dave

Will make a donation shortly.  The Provider is back to its greatness of the past

cheers

Roger

[Roger Smith]

Still working like a charm - beautifully executed Phillip

cheers Roger

On Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:22:05 UTC+11, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

[Roger Smith]

Hi Phillip

Have noticed one bug - the notification box doubles up on events  ie. instead of seeing one notification of an event it shows two.  This seems to only happen wiht my primary calendar?

cheers

Roger

On Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:22:05 UTC+11, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

[Roger Smith]

Ignore last my last comment.  It appears that if you have multiple reminders on Google Calendar they double up on the Provder's notification box as well.  I don't remember that happening in the past but I may be wrong

Roger

[Philipp Kewisch]

On 12/10/14 8:52 AM, Roger Smith wrote:
> Ignore last my last comment. It appears that if you have multiple
> reminders on Google Calendar they double up on the Provder's
> notification box as well. I don't remember that happening in the past
> but I may be wrong
> Roger
>

I think this issue doesn't only exist with Google Calendar, but also for
other calendars in Lightning.

Thanks for reporting though,
Philipp

[Adrian P]

I recently upgraded to the latest version due to the changes google made. I had that issue where it processed ALL past events and I had it dismiss them all. Took a while, but eventually it got through them. Now it's sitting on 7 past reminders and it won't let me dismiss them. When dismissing them, I've tried both options (submit my changes anyways and discard my changes and reload) and they just won't go away. Any ideas on what I can do to make them go away?

Thank you,
Adrian

[Dave Ladd]

Fwiw...I was having that problem before all off this started. 

It's in a separate dialogue box. For each event. Same behavior as you're describing. I just click on the "x" in the upper right of the dialogue box. Forget about using the two buttons at the bottom of the dialogue box. That behavior had probably been there for a year now...it's irritating to say the least..but the x will at least get rid of the dialogue box.

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[MaPa]

I can't give the google permissions in the google-window. The Buttons there doesn't work. See the capture please.

[Philipp Kewisch]

On 12/17/14 12:13 PM, MaPa wrote:

I can't give the google permissions in the google-window. The Buttons there doesn't work. See the capture please.

If you click somewhere else inside the window, it should be enabled after a short moment. This is controlled by Google afaik.

Philipp

[MaPa]

Thanks for your answer. But I can click and wait, nothing happens ... And in an other software work it without a problem so give the google permission

Manuel

[Roman Volf]

Phillip, 

I'm having an issue with 2 events that I cannot dismiss. Here are the errors: 

Error: [calGoogleCalendar] Modifying item 55-12-SS-KT: Design-Build Project 95% Design Development Over the Shoulder Review Meeting - Conference all in -  failed:2147500037: {

 "error": {

  "errors": [

   {

    "domain": "global",

    "reason": "forbidden",

    "message": "Forbidden"

   }

  ],

  "code": 403,

  "message": "Forbidden"

 }

} 

Error: [calGoogleCalendar] Modifying item T44 and T22 Project Review Two CDW failed:2147500037: {

 "error": {

  "errors": [

   {

    "domain": "global",

    "reason": "forbidden",

    "message": "Forbidden"

   }

  ],

  "code": 403,

  "message": "Forbidden"

 }

}

[Roman Volf]

Note, I never replied to either of these events. I suspect this may have something to do with it, as I haven't had issues dismissing events which I replied Yes to. 

[Philipp Kewisch]

Roman,thanks for the debug logs. This is the same message as in bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101175 although its about
accepting the invitation not dismissing reminders. Could you follow the
steps in comment 9, replacing the act of accepting with dismissing the
reminder?

Regards,
Philipp

[Roman Volf]

Philipp, 

I emailed you the messages. 

[Roger Smith]

Hi Dave and Phillip

I am having problems not being able to dismiss notifications and the solution you suggested, Dave, does not solve the problem. Curently this problem only seems to occur in the link between Google Calendar and Facebook Birthdays when the notifications appear in the Provider.  But it goes further than that - I have turned off the offending calendar in Postbox Calendar but the notifications keep appearing????  If I hover over the Calendar in Postbox it tells me that "Calendar for Facebook Birthdays is momentarily not available".  The "moment" has been going on for a week now.  I wonder if this is a problem with Facebook, Google or the Provider or a combination of all of them :-(

Very odd.

cheers

Roger

[Roger Smith]

On this issue - I kep on trying and fixed the problem.  I deleted the Facebook calendar both in the Provider and in Google Calendar then reloaded into Google and updated the Provider and now all seems to be OK.  Sems that either Facebook or Google had changed or were not talking to to the Provider but now all seems OK.

Roger

[Dave Ladd]

Great to hear Roger. I'm a user just like you - Phillip is the developer (although I was a app dev programmer before I retired - it was with early internet tools-not the current generation.)
Great to hear it's working again for you Roger...

Roger Smith

Saturday, December 20, 2014 6:23 PM

On this issue - I kep on trying and fixed the problem.  I deleted the Facebook calendar both in the Provider and in Google Calendar then reloaded into Google and updated the Provider and now all seems to be OK.  Sems that either Facebook or Google had changed or were not talking to to the Provider but now all seems OK.

Roger

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Saturday, December 20, 2014 5:19 PM

Hi Dave and Phillip

I am having problems not being able to dismiss notifications and the solution you suggested, Dave, does not solve the problem. Curently this problem only seems to occur in the link between Google Calendar and Facebook Birthdays when the notifications appear in the Provider.  But it goes further than that - I have turned off the offending calendar in Postbox Calendar but the notifications keep appearing????  If I hover over the Calendar in Postbox it tells me that "Calendar for Facebook Birthdays is momentarily not available".  The "moment" has been going on for a week now.  I wonder if this is a problem with Facebook, Google or the Provider or a combination of all of them :-(

Very odd.

cheers

Roger

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Friday, December 12, 2014 11:49 AM

Fwiw...I was having that problem before all off this started. 

It's in a separate dialogue box. For each event. Same behavior as you're describing. I just click on the "x" in the upper right of the dialogue box. Forget about using the two buttons at the bottom of the dialogue box. That behavior had probably been there for a year now...it's irritating to say the least..but the x will at least get rid of the dialogue box.

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I recently upgraded to the latest version due to the changes google made. I had that issue where it processed ALL past events and I had it dismiss them all. Took a while, but eventually it got through them. Now it's sitting on 7 past reminders and it won't let me dismiss them. When dismissing them, I've tried both options (submit my changes anyways and discard my changes and reload) and they just won't go away. Any ideas on what I can do to make them go away?

Thank you,
Adrian

On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:57:01 AM UTC-5, Philipp Kewisch wrote: