Re: [Evolution] Option to select email notification for calendar reminders grayed out

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2014, 10:23 +0200 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt:
> Am Montag, den 22.09.2014, 15:59 -0700 schrieb AR Neal:
> > Hello: how do I get my Evolution calendar to send email reminders? The
> > email option is grayed out. Thanks!
>
> Here is a workaround using the unix mail command part of the mailutils
> package, http://www.mailutils.org/:
>
> 1) Copy the following script to a directory which is part of your PATH
> environment variable,
> like <homedir>/bin. Make it executable via chmod or using your file
> browser.
>
> #### mymailto_ex.sh "<from_addr>" "<to_addr>" "<subj>" "<content>"
> #! /bin/bash
>
>
> echo "$4" | mail -s "$3"  "$2" --append="From:        $1" ~/mailspool
> ###############
>
> 2) Create an evolution account with Server Type "Local Delivery" under
> "Receiving mail" and choose a file in your
>   home directory, like <homedir>/mailspool for Configuration.
>
> 3) Create an inbox mail filter which moves all mail whose source account
> is the one from the previous step
>   to the Outbox of your main account through which you send your mail.
>
> 4) Now you can create a custom alarm using "Run a program", setting the
> above mymailto_ex.sh as the program
>   and the argument list, in quotation marks, like in the comment line of
> the script above.
>
> Hope that helps,
> thomas

Also found the above link to be useful:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bash-ksh-csh-sendingfiles-mail-attachments/

thomas