Sending email on a schedule?

[John Van Ostrand]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 16:58 -0400, William Park wrote:

> Yes, it's called 'at' and 'crontab'.  It would be helpful if we know
> what ways that at/crontab were deficient.


There is more than that. You will need to know how to send email via
command line.

mail -s "Pick up cheese" me-UeXVDTxk/28 at public.gmane.org <<EOF
This is just a reminder to pickup cheese on the way home.
EOF

You can do this with at quite easily:

at 16:00
at> mail -s ......
at> This is .....
at> EOF
at> <ctrl-d>

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