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 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
