Dear friends,
This is a program I wrote for my own personal need. I felt it might be of
general use, so I am making it public after a little bit of polishing.
I am sick and tired of forgetting birthdays and anniversaries of people I
know. So I thought I will automate things so that they receive the wish
automatically from my e-mail ID. For them it will be indistinguishable whether
I sent it or the system sent it...
Moreover I made sure that the mail is sent at 09:00 am to give the
illusion that I am awake and typing...
Anyway It is just a 45 line shell script. Take a look, you might like it.
But I am assuming few things.
a) You have mutt installed
b) Your machine is setup to send e-mail
There are other assumptions but these are the most important ones.
I will spend a moment explaining the events.txt file format as that is the
only critical component of the entire scheme of things.
It is just 5 fields delimited by | (pipe) symbol.
It is
Appellation | e-mail id1,e-mail id2...| bday or mday | Mnemonic date |
date in mm/dd format
Here is a good example.
Amma and appa |dad@xxxxxxxxx,mom@xxxxxxxxx|mday|Oct 5|10/05
E-mail IDs need to be separated by comma and any number can be given.
(No comments or spaces are handled outside the appellation field)
And you can have multiple events triggered on the same day of course.
Right now I am handling only marriage anniversaries and birthdays. In f
uture it can be made to wish for Bakrid,Deepavali and so on. :-)
So the above line will send a nice graphic wishing marriage anniversary on
Oct 5th every year as an e-mail from you which starts with
"Dear Amma and appa,"
Just download the file from
http://girish1729.googlepages.com/aeg.tar.gz
and untar it and execute the setup.sh shell script.
Hope you like it! :-)
No license complications please. Code is in public domain.
WARNING:- This program is to be installed and executed as a normal user,
not as root. So those of you working as root should change your habit. :-)
regards,
Girish
PS:- Comments, criticisms,flames, suggestions all welcome. Please discuss
on the list instead of sending me personal e-mail