[Mailman-Users] RE: Period Mailings; Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail

Sun Feb 1 23:59:55 CET 2004

Yes you can :-) but you have to learn somethnig about cron...
man 5 crontab should enougth for now ;-)
To avoid the passwd reminder do

crontab -e -u mailman (your mailman user)
then comment this line.

# 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.
0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib/mailman/cron/mailpasswds

nelson

-----Original Message-----
From:	Doug Piper [mailto:doug.piper at wovenelectronics.com]
Sent:	Sun 01-Feb-04 19:17
To:	Nélson Jorge Teixeira de Brito
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Subject:	RE: [Mailman-Users] RE: Period Mailings;Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail
Thanks for your answer. I was hoping there I could maybe leverage-off the existing password mailing that goes every 30-days.

I'm unfamiliar with CRON. Where can I learn more about it?

Doug Piper
Woven Electronics
P.O. Box 189
Mauldin, SC  29662
PH 864-967-1751
FAX: 800-514-0188
http://www.wovenelectronics.com/
doug.piper at wovenelectronics.com

-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-users-bounces+doug=hyperpiper.com at python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+doug=hyperpiper.com at python.org]On Behalf Of Nélson Jorge Teixeira de Brito
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 2:12 PM
To: Mailman-Users at python.org
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] RE: Period Mailings;Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail

Hi,
you can simple write a cron that sends mail to your list announcing the
birthdays or whatever, but, as Paul Byerly says you can do a script for that
purpose. It will be more usefull for sure.

regards,
nb

-----Original Message-----
From:   mailman-users-bounces+ntbrito=fc.up.pt at python.org on behalf of Paul H Byerly
Sent:   Sun 01-Feb-04 18:32
To:     mailman-users at python.org
Cc:    
Subject:        [Mailman-Users] RE: Period Mailings;Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail
doug wrote:
>I've been using Yahoo Groups, but have tired of the all the ads. So, I've
>setup a mail list using MailMan.
>
>However I really miss the ability to have monthly and yearly e-mails
>automatically sent. Is there anyway to automatically send e-mails to the
>list on specific dates in the future?

      Mail man is open source, so you can add anything you like - if you
know how.  I've been playing with this a bit - I was going to use the edit
html pages to make it easy for list managers, but so far I've not cracked
it.  Another option, probably a better one, would be to set up a PHP
calender program and add links to it on some of the admin
pages.  Unfortunately learning PHP is still on my to do list.

<>< Paul

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