On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:24 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > > 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. > > It's just a self-contained Perl script so it's trivial to install. > > poc
I installed it and after some considerable effort got it to do what I wanted. I needed to specify and option for essentially everything, including the username an password for my outgoing mail server. At some point, I will go through the perl script and rewrite it so it does just exactly what I want and save that as the program I run under cron. Meanwhile I have made a shell script that executes sendEmail with all the required options set. -- Leonard Evens [email protected] Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
