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Paco500
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Jul 14, 2012, 12:23 PM
 
My wife, lovely thing that she is, needs to send an identical email every month. Every month she forgets.

I've been trying to find a way that this can be automated, but am having a difficult time finding a way to make this happen. My first thought was AppleScript, but after some research, it would seem apple kind of broke AppleScript in Mail with Lion.

Anyone have any ideas?

I would ideally like to set something up so that it comes from her mobileme/iCloud address, but if there is a way to automate this with google mail/yahoo mail/whatever web mail, it could work.

For the record, I've set up calendar reminders, but she just dismisses them and forgets to send the damn mail.

All we have at home are Macs- so it would need to be accomplished in OS X (Lion) or on the Web.

Any help appreciated.
     
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Jul 14, 2012, 04:21 PM
 
iCal -> alarm -> email

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Paco500  (op)
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Jul 14, 2012, 04:40 PM
 
As I said above, I've set that up. She generally gets the reminder on her iPhone, dismisses it with the intention of sending the email, and the completely forgets about it.

I need to take her out of the equations.
     
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Jul 14, 2012, 06:23 PM
 
No I mean have iCal send the email instead of her sending it

Oh, maybe iCal doesn't go that far. What about sendmail?
     
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Jul 14, 2012, 06:33 PM
 
Different idea:

Open a free mail chimp account, at mailchimp.com. I am recommending mailchimp because we're using it for our newsletters and it works for us, I am sure there are any numbers of other services that would do the trick as well.

Set up your email, enter the return address of your choice, schedule to send once a month and never think about it again.
     
   
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