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



On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:24 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
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.

It's just a self-contained Perl script so it's trivial to install.

poc

I installed it and after some considerable effort got it to do what I
wanted.  I needed to specify and option for essentially everything,
including the username an password for my outgoing mail server.  At some
point, I will go through the perl script and rewrite it so it does just
exactly what I want and save that as the program I run under cron.
Meanwhile I have made a shell script that executes sendEmail with all
the required options set.
-- 
Leonard Evens len math northwestern edu
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University




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