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

date posted 8th January 2002 23:51

Hi James,
Thanks for the info.

Rog.


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Fidell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Automatically sending an email on a certain date ? ?


> 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