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

[Leonard Evens <len math northwestern edu>]

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