Plaidophile

Apparently, Plaxo's Google Calendar conduit has suddenly started syncing alarms. This is a good thing, for future events.

Unfortunately, Thunderbird/Lightning shares the same defect with Outlook in that it'll bring up an alarm dialog for newly-created alarms which were some time in the past. So when it suddenly has 87 "new" alarms to display at startup, things go a bit wacky.

Also, apparently, Thunderbird's "dismiss all" gets out of sync with what's on the server, causing 87 separate "the item on the server has changed" dialogs which all have to be dismissed one at a time (and it doesn't even tell you which items have changed, so good luck understanding what's about to happen in the case that you've actually caused a legitimate conflict).

Yet another place where people just haven't thought things through on a particular sync issue. ("People" in this case referring to Mozilla Lightning folks, who I guess decided that alarms should always be raised based on things in the past. I really hope that it's not relying on some sort of metadata flag on the event itself, which could theoretically be cleared somewhere else.)