Brett On 26/10/2011, at 10:06 AM, Brett Curtis wrote:
> I have a list of clients with whom I have regular bookings. > They are all sent physical calendars, but some are not as reliable as others > in remembering thhe appointments. > > Is there a program that I can set up a regular email to be sent to them > reminding them of an impending appointment? > > I have also found that clients who receive these emails are apt to send a > cancellation or a deferral > > Quite often this is done quite close to the booking when it is difficult to > replace that booking. Can I set up a "Do not reply" email address so that it > is not quite so easy for them to do this? Often we do a few clients all in > the same area at the same time of the quarter and to have to return to that > area the next week costs time and money. When you see a "do not reply" on an email message it is normally because the message is generated by a script which uses the server's mail program, rather than a person using a mail program on their computer. There is no way that a recipient can be prevented from replying to such a message (or any message), but the reply goes to an address which just ignores it. You could mimic this behaviour by setting up an account for reminders with a return address which (using a rule in your mail program) sends any replies straight to the trash. As to the first part of your question, we would write a system to do this from scratch, but I am not sure if you could find anything "off the shelf". I do not think it is something that a mail program could be set to do, but I might be wrong about that. Depending on what support your web hosting service provides, it might be possible to set up a cron job to do it, but this requires some Unix skills and could get complex. Regards Geoff ---------------------- Geoff and Kaye [email protected] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
