On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the suggestion. It appears to offer only the source rpm package. But I'm sure I can manage with the tar package. > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
