On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:59 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > I would like to send a recurring email message as a reminder, but i > can't figure out how to do it using evolution. > > Previously I just used cron with something of the form > echo "...." | mail -s Reminder x...@yyy > > Unfortunately, Comcast started blocking port 25 for security reasons. I > set up evolution to use an alternate port, but I don't want to have to > bother figuring out how to do it for sendmail. > > I tried using evolution's calendar to scehdule a recurring event. But > the alarm option to send and email is grayed out. I looked briefly at > the archives, and it appears that this is a well known bug or feature, > depnding on your point of view. > > Is there some way to do what I want using evolution or some other > program?
Go back to using cron, but with sendEmail (http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail), which can send SMTP to any port. It doesn't need sendmail. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
