URGENT - Need a software that can automatically send emails on certain scheduled dates???????

Question

Kind of like an email time capsule.. Enter 20 dates -- and a recipient for each.. then a message attached. How is this possible with a free download? Thanks so much

MUST BE FREE!

Answer 1

Look on download.com, there might be such an application but my guess is such a thing doesn't exist - not free anyway.

Answer 2

If you want regular e-mails (like the same time every day, or every Tuesday, or the first day of every month), use cron.

Type
$ crontab -e
and then vi will open up (so make sure you get some practise with vi! Quick hint: shift+G to Go to the end of the file; a to enter append mode; type your line; Esc to ESCape from append mode; shift+Z, shift+Z to save and exit). Now you need to enter a line such as
0,30 8-16 * * * mail -s'hello' [e-mail] < somefile

this mails the contents of "somefile" to "[e-mail]" with a subject of "hello" on the hour and half-hour from 8 o'clock in the morning until half past four in the afternoon.

first number is minutes
second number is hours, VCR-style (12 to 23 are afternoon / evening; midnight is 0, not 24)
third number is day of month
fourth number is month
fifth number is day of week 0 = sun, 1 = mon, &c.
rest of line is a command you want to run

Any number can be replaced by a range (such as 1-10), a comma-separated list (such as 0,30; don't put spaces after the commas) or a star meaning "anything". If you specify a day of month, be sure day of week is * and vice-versa.


If you want occasional e-mails, use "at".

Type something like

$ at 14:30 25.12.07
or
$ at 14:30 12/25/07
(in other words use dots in the date if you write it the normal way or slashes if you write it the american way)
then you will get a different prompt, at this prompt you can enter a series of commands and these will be executed when the time comes up. Press ctrl+D when done entering commands.

For more information try
$ man crontab
and
$ man at

Both "cron" and "at" are installed as standard in all distributions, to the best of my knowledge they are part of POSIX.

Answer 3

download crawler tool bar from www.crawler.com.its very suitable and works good.