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No option to receive email reminder for Gmail calendar events

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Hello, Does anyone know how I can get a calendar event reminder via email? When editing a calendar event, I click the reminder dropdown box and select "custom", and the only option I have for "Choose a reminder action" is "Show an alert" (see screenshot).

I'm using Thunderbird 115.6.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11, freshly installed with a few email accounts and a Gmail calendar. Everything else seem to sync and work fine. I unsubscribed\resubscribed to the calendar to no effect.

Hello, Does anyone know how I can get a calendar event reminder via email? When editing a calendar event, I click the reminder dropdown box and select "custom", and the only option I have for "Choose a reminder action" is "Show an alert" (see screenshot). I'm using Thunderbird 115.6.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11, freshly installed with a few email accounts and a Gmail calendar. Everything else seem to sync and work fine. I unsubscribed\resubscribed to the calendar to no effect.
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A reddit user found this thread that suggests email reminders aren't an existing feature. I assumed they were.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420544