for me the following works (but I am a not-knowledgeable user): REM Jan 01 +7 MSG birthday anonymous %g with tkremind, this gives a pop-up from 7 days before with %g the number of days still to go. Maybe invert date constituents?
I do not use email reminders, the pop up is good enough for me. Charles On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:43:26 +0200 Hendrik Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just started using remind and am still trying to get to grips with > it. > > For now I want remind to remind me of birthdays 20 days in advance, > every day until the birthday is reached. So far my REM looks like > this: REM 18 Sep +20 MSG Birthday: Some Body %a > > One technology I consistently use since years and expect to be using a > few more decades is E-Mail, so I would like to have remind send me > emails. Since my server runs 24/7 in contrast to my laptop, I ran > remind on my server like this: > rem -z '-kecho %s | mail -s "REMINDERS" [email protected]' > > I started that command a few times (with slight variations, like "%s" > vs. just %s) on 31.08.2015 and the days following, but only received > two emails (both on 31.08.2015) about the reminder above. > > 0) How should I run remind to send emails? Is my command sensible? > Please suggest anything that you think would make more sense. > > 1) Why does remind not repeat the reminder up to the birthday? What am > I missing? > It seems my reminder above only triggered once (or rather twice for > some reason) when I started remind, while I’d like it to trigger > every day until the set date. > > 2) How does remind keep track of which reminders have already been > triggered? > Even when I stop and restart the command I use, I don’t receive > another reminder about that birthday reminder. So I’m guessing that > remind has some kind of state saved somewhere. Is that the case? > > I’d like to understand what I’m doing and how remind exactly works. > I hope my questions are clear and I have not missed something obvious. > I am grateful for any advice or suggestions on how to integrate and > use remind properly. Please tell me if my questions are lacking > information and feel free to just point me to the f…ine manual if > what I’m asking is documented already. I did read it but it’s easy to > miss things on the first pass … > > Thank you very much and best regards > > henk > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind > -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
