Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:59:44 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Jim Pazarena <fquest@ccstores.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reminder email notification utility Message-ID: <489878F0.1030907@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <489871AA.4080709@ccstores.com> References: <489871AA.4080709@ccstores.com>
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Jim Pazarena wrote: > Is there a utility available which can take a database of dates & > events and email > out a reminder? > > I know that I could create something using at, but seems to me that I > saw a utility > already designed for this. > > I have missed one too many birthdays calendar and cron ? a cron entry like @weekly /usr/bin/calendar -A 7 | mail -s "weekly calendar" your.external@email.addr and man calendar (its in the base system) very simple text file format Vince
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