Hi On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:10:47 -0400 Dianne Skoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> > rem -z '-kecho %s | mail -s "REMINDERS" [email protected]' > > In server mode, Remind only queues *timed* reminders. That explains it. > If you want to receive an email of advance warning reminders, you > need to run Remind in normal mode once a day, for example from cron. I will do that then. > > 2) How does remind keep track of which reminders have already been > > triggered? > > In normal mode, it does not. It processed the file anew each time and > does not remember state. In Daemon Mode, it remembers today's > reminders and issues them at the right time, but all the state is > held in memory... it's not persistent. > > (Actually, the seldom-user ONCE keyword uses the last access date of > the file on which it was invoked as a kind of state indicator.) Makes sense. > > Even when I stop and restart the command I use, I don't receive > > another reminder about that birthday reminder. > > You should. That's odd. Yeah, seems odd. I’m running Remind on Debian stable. If I can provide any other information or test something to help figure out what is wrong, feel free to ask. Thank you very much for your help. 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
