I'd like to send out a monthly announcement reminding users that they are on a list and to remind them of some list etiquette. I want to do this automatically. I've looked at the FAQ, but I can't find a way to do this.
TIA for help.
Paul
On 4/9/2010 8:45 PM, Stumpie wrote:
I'd like to send out a monthly announcement reminding users that they are on a list and to remind them of some list etiquette. I want to do this automatically. I've looked at the FAQ, but I can't find a way to do this.
If you have access to the host server or any server, set up a cron to mail the list once a month with whatever message you want.
If you don't have access to a server that reliably runs cron jobs, you might be able to set up something in some web calendar to mail a reminder to your list of some monthly recurring event. I think the hard part of that would be to get the mail to contain the appropriate message, but it might be doable.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Quoting Mark Sapiro (mark@msapiro.net):
On 4/9/2010 8:45 PM, Stumpie wrote:
I'd like to send out a monthly announcement reminding users that they are on a list and to remind them of some list etiquette. I want to do this automatically. I've looked at the FAQ, but I can't find a way to do this.
If you have access to the host server or any server, set up a cron to mail the list once a month with whatever message you want.
This is how I do it for my lists in cron:
00 12 1 * * /usr/bin/mutt LIST@DOMAIN.COM -s 'Monthly List Instructions' < ~/LIST.mailman.txt
That all goes on one line, and the LIST.mailman.txt file contains the message you want to send. Mine uses Mutt to send the mail, but there are many other ways/tools to accomplish this.
dd
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