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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Mike<
stuff@dustsmoke.com> wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> Do any OS email clients have the ability to schedule the sending of an
>> email? For example, I send an email to someone and get an out of
>> office response. I would like to schedule resending my email when the
>> person is back in the office, particularly when he/she will be out of
>> the office for several days or weeks.
>>
>> i checked with the gmail web interface, and it does not have this
>> feature according to the help pages. Anyone know how to do it in gmail?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>
> Call me ghetto (or lazy) but I've always just used atd since its
> pre-installed on all kinds of things and I don't want to worry about my
> internet connection, email client or desktop being ready to do what I
> need it to do. So I just hop on something thats always on and issue
> whatever command I need it to do.
>
> Example:
>
> me@bleh:~$ at 2:00 next week
> at> echo "How are you?" | mail -s "OHAI!" somebody@somewhere.com
> at> <EOT>
> job 6 at Thu Jul 16 02:00:00 2009
>
> (thats ctrl+d which does the "End of Text" <EOT>)
>
> To get one of them fancy emails all the cool kids do you could make
> something nice and:
> mail -s "subject" somebody@somewhere.com < /tmp/skateboards.txt
>
> -Mike
>
>
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