[PLUG] Automating mailings at intervals of 1 hour
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Feb 12 01:22:33 UTC 2016
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Jim Lewinson wrote:
> How about if you have a cron job that looks every hour in a given
> directory, and selects the first file and sends it?
>
> The file contains the subject and the addresses, and after sending it, it
> is deleted.
>
> Then, you just put the files into that directory when you want to send them,
> and otherwise the script wakes up and just goes back to sleep for an hour.
Jim,
That could work ... as long as I remember to delete the top-most file
after it's sent.
Thanks,
Rich
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