time-delayed emails to a mailing list

[William Park]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 02:16:02PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a project right now that requires me to send out "daily
> prompts" to a set of participants. My preference is to send the emails via
> mailman so that I've got all the subscriber management tools; however, I'm pretty
> sure that mailman won't let me set a month's worth of messages and then
> set the dates that the emails are sent out on. I can write a little shell
> script to have a message sent to mailman at specified times/dates but I'd 
> like to have a nice little GUI interface to add/edit the messages. Before 
> I go ahead and write my own, does anyone know if something like this 
> already exists?

Not that I know of.

At first reading, 'crontab' comes to mind.  But, you want interactive
GUI, which rules out 'crontab' because you have to be "present" to click
this and that.

My suggestion is to do the GUI first, and save the final messages to
YYYY-MM-DD directories, like
    2005-10-08
    2005-10-09
    ...
Then, send out the emails with crontab.

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