* Daisuke Miyagawa <mail(_at_)31(_dot_)com> [010410 17:15]:
I want to send emails to cell-phones at night but
if i email at night, recipients are awaked.
So what i want to do is...
STEP 1. I send some emails at night.
(But its "To" add. is not real recipients' add. but dummy address at my
domain,
like send_at_noon(_at_)31(_dot_)com(_dot_)
And I keep recipients' add. somewhere in the emails)
STEP 2. emails to send_at_noon(_at_)31(_dot_)com are stored but sent to no
one.
STEP 3. At noon of the next day,
emails are sent to real recipients, with recipients' add. at To:.
(I can use crontab at my domain.)
Perhaps I can solve this with procmail and crontab, but
I am newbie about procmail, so i have not idea what to do at STEP3.
will you give me any hints or examples that realize such situations?
Here's an idea and a couple of files for illustration. Untested, of
course. Use at your own risk.
I'm thinking you should have a a directory called 'emails' in your
$MAILDIR. You should also add a 'To:' header to the body of your
emails for the following script to work.
For example, if you wanted to send a message to bob at noon the next
day, you would write this in your cellphone.
"
To: bob(_at_)31(_dot_)com
Hey bob. This gets sent out at noon. :))
"
Here're the files.
.procmailrc:
:0:
* ^TO_send_at_noon(_at_)31\(_dot_)com
emails
crontab:
0 12 * * * /bin/bash /path/to/send_emails.sh
send_emails.sh:
#!/bin/sh
cd /patch/to/procmail/emails
for email in *
do
# extract the Subject from the header
SUBJ=`cat $email | formail -xSubject: | sed 's/^Subject: //'`
# extract your To: header from the _body_
TO=`cat $email | sed '1,/^$/d' | grep To: | sed 's/^To: //'`
# send off the email
mail -s "$SUBJ" $TO
# if all went well, rid yourself of the email
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
rm -f $email
fi
done
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