Re: [Evolution] How do I schedule a recurring email message?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:59 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> I would like to send a recurring email message as a reminder, but i
> can't figure out how to do it using evolution.
>
> Previously I just used cron with something of the form
> echo "...." | mail -s Reminder xxx yyy
>
> Unfortunately, Comcast started blocking port 25 for security reasons.  I
> set up evolution to use an alternate port, but I don't want to have to
> bother figuring out how to do it for sendmail.
>
> I tried using evolution's calendar to scehdule a recurring event.  But
> the alarm option to send and email is grayed out.   I looked briefly at
> the archives, and it appears that this is a well known bug or feature,
> depnding on your point of view.
>
> Is there some way to do what I want using evolution or some other
> program?

Go back to using cron, but with sendEmail
(http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail), which can send
SMTP to any port. It doesn't need sendmail.

poc