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Subject: Re: reminder email notification utility
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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

/misc/birthday in the ports collection.

I run it from crontab daily to see the upcoming events for the next 
seven days.

Peter

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