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

[Leonard Evens <len math northwestern edu>]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the suggestion.  It appears to offer only the source rpm
package.  But I'm sure I can manage with the tar package.

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