Re: FN-FORUM Automatically sending an email on a certain date ? ?

date posted 8th January 2002 23:20

Quoting Roger Prideaux [EMAIL REMOVED]

> Has anyone ever had to do this/have any ideas?
>
> Basically I need a system where I can automatically send the user/member
> an email on their birthday, how would I go about doing this via the web ?

On a UNIX-type system this is trivial. You'd have a cron job that runs
every day, scanning your database of birthdays for today's date and then
firing off an email to each member. If you don't have access to cron or
at, there are some fairly gross ways to achieve the same ends, but for
the service to be reliable you'd still need something like cron somewhere.

I'm sure NT/win2k have similar facilities, but I don't know about them.

James