How to send scheduled email automatically.

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I have read forums that mention Cron in (scheduled email). But I was not able to see an example or code. I am just worrying scheduled emails periodically every week (w/o clicking anything). The load of sending many emails would be second and less of my priority.[Just mentioning this so that if there are answers, the second will not be mentioned]

I am more on desktop applications, so I really don't have strong background with Web App....

Can anyone guide me through this. Like if (1)I need to write a script - how and what should I write on it, (2)If I need to associate the script to Cron - how should I do that.Please be elaborate. And if you have codes, please share.

And to mention, I am developing under Windows XP Pro SP2, XAMPP for PHP.
Thanks.

Posted 25-Apr-11 0:07am

this_is_my_alias

Updated 25-Apr-11 0:15am

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*ZeeroC00l* · Answer 1 · 2011-04-25T00:44:00

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You can write a custom script that would send the mail with contents necessary and add it to scheduler.

All you need to do for that is create a new scheduled task and perform the below when the task is initiated.

C:\Xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\Xampp\htdocs\my_script.php

But while writing the PHP script you need to be careful.

Can you tell us what contents you want to include in that mail ?

BR//
Harsha

Posted 25-Apr-11 0:44am

ZeeroC00l

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this_is_my_alias 25-Apr-11 10:22am

the content will be a link/url to a page...can you give me an example on the script?

ZeeroC00l 25-Apr-11 10:55am

Why dont you google for the link ??
And more over the script you should write in PHP is content specific and its upto you how you want to design it and what you want to do with the script.

You want to store the content somewhere and retrieve it with PHP script and then send it through mail, or anything else that you want to do.

this_is_my_alias 25-Apr-11 11:16am

Yeah, I already found an example, quite exhausting looking for it :D ....I'll try to modify it. Thanks.

this_is_my_alias 25-Apr-11 11:21am

I'll just post this link I've found. Others might want to see it as well. I'll still need to try it with the command line above. <link>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2571658/how-to-schedule-emails-to-send-out</link>

ZeeroC00l 25-Apr-11 11:53am

Nice to know that you found an example.. Any doubt in that the CP forum is always there to help