Re: scheduling email

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: scheduling email

On or near 9/2/03 12:56 PM, Ruth Ann McClain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> I would like to send out a monthly reminder to several students, and was
> just checking the TOC/schedules, to see if this is possible, without
> rewriting and addressing each month.
>
> From what I can see, it would require a script?  It would be the same email
> to the same people, at the end of the month.
>
> Is this possible, and if so, can someone either point me to the directions
> in the TOC, or email instructions to me, and the list, if they are
> interested?
>
> Thank you.
You could find a generic "send a message" script, and put it into a schedule that runs monthly. (Use Tools->Schedules to set up the schedule.) For instance:

(* Edit these properties to your desired values. *)
property targetGroup : "Test Group"
property fileToSend : ":Documents:MonthlyMessage.txt"
property topic : "Monthly reminder"

set theText to read file fileToSend

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    set toWhom to group targetGroup
    set newmsg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:topic, recipient:targetGroup, content:theText}
    send newmsg
end tell

Paste that into Script Editor, edit the properties to your desired values, put the text message you want to send into the file named as “fileToSend”, and save the script anywhere.

Set up a group in the Address Book containing all the addresses you want to send to. Make sure to use the same name you gave to “targetGroup” in the script.

Then, set up a schedule to run the last day of  every month, or the last Monday of every month (use “Recurring”), and set it to run this script. That will do it.

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