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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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