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On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 16:39:55 walt wrote: |
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> I thought I'd been rooted when I saw a notification pop up on my desktop |
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> with no previous actions on my part -- it just appeared out of nowhere |
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> for no apparent reason, offering to sell me gold dust (cheap!). |
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> Turns out that evolution (a gnome clone of MS Outook) was checking my |
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> google calendar account automatically and I didn't even know it. I |
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> use gmail every day, but never use the google calendar app that comes |
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> bundled with the gmail account. |
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> I do use the evolution calendar function on this local machine for |
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> popup reminders of birthdays, etc, but never do I publish my calendar |
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> on the internet. |
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> So, be aware that some calendar apps are set to do this insane stuff |
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> by default -- and google calendar accepts unsolicited invitations by |
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> default(!). Maybe you should turn that off if you're not expecting |
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> a Nigerian offer you can't refuse? |
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I guess it's treated as another imap folder (but I may be wrong). Couldn't |
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you manage this through the imap subscriptions? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |