On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 12:29, Dick Roth wrote: > Hi and thanks for the suggestion. However I don't use evo's calendar > since the corporate calendar (Corporate Time) is required for meeting > management where I work. Also, the command line within the reminder > option isn't very intuitive. I'm not sure how to parse the command > line, "mail -s"Lest We Forget" [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
The mail command line was just an example, what you can do is run any external system program, and your program can do the mailing... "mail" is just a standard command line tool on unix systems. Regarding the calendaring, you can still use the evo calendar to setup such reminders can't you? and use the corporate calendar as a separate tool... > > Thanks anyway, > Dick > > > (snip) > > > > > > However, an associated feature I used to find really helpful in the old > > > days when I used Eudora was the "timed send" where you could stipulate > > > a date/time to send a particular message. This was real handy for event > > > reminders when not coupled with a calendar. Any requests for this > > > feature? > > > > Such a feature already exists... you can go to your calendar, and setup > > a meeting/appointment/whatever, then set a reminder and in the reminder > > say: > > > > "Run an external program" => mail -s"Lest We Forget" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Pretty cool actually, i have used it to email me > > on an SMS gateway before and get a SMS reminder :-) > > > > > (snip) > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
