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RickP
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Automated email reminder - 1/16/2006 8:23:39
Is there an quick and easy (preferably free!) way to send an email reminder to certain people on certain days of the week?
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RE: Automated email reminder - 1/16/2006 11:34:54
What server side language are you using? Will you send this reminder yourself via the browser or did you want some type of automated script - similar to a cron job?
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RE: Automated email reminder - 1/17/2006 7:02:58
Hi Corey
My server has PHP. My Cpanel has 'Cron jobs' listed there but I have never used this feature and have no idea about it.
I want to set an email reminder to go to 5 different people. To person 1 on a Monday, person 2 on a Tuesday and so on...
Can Cron jobs do this? or maybe there is a PHP script for this purpose?
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RE: Automated email reminder - 1/17/2006 8:10:54
I have never worked with eiter but it is my undrstanding that they work in conjunction with each other. You have a PHP script that needs to be ran(emailing these people). And usually to do this, it needs some type of user interaction. That is where the CRON job comes in - it "activates" the page so that it can be ran.
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RE: Automated email reminder - 1/17/2006 9:35:28
For exampl, I know that our newsletter script has what you want but we run a Wincron against it since it is ASP. Yuo might check out Mailing Lists Managers as well to see if one of those has the script that you are looking for.
A quick looks finds Mailing List Manager Pro 3.0 which has scheduling options. And The NotOneBit.com Simple Mailing List also seems to offer The ability to schedule mailings for a future date. You might check out the Simple Mailing list since it is free to see if it will suffice
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RE: Automated email reminder - 1/17/2006 9:39:20
Thanks Corey - will do.
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