SEND-REMINDERS(1)

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version 1.2.1 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💌 SEND-REMINDERS(1) — the perl doc that lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation zone ✨

ok bestie, sit down, hydrate, because this is the little script that keeps everyone's birthdays from being a whole tragedy 🎂

🎀 NAME 🎀

send-reminders — literally just: it sends email reminders for special occasions 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Send email reminders set by users for special-occasion email reminders.

Send email reminders set by users for special-occasion email reminders.

no cap, that's the whole vibe 🌸

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so Email-reminder lets users define events they want to be reminded about by email. the possible events are giving birthdays 🎂, anniversaries 💞, and yearly events 🗓️. reminders can go out on the actual day of the event, and also a few days beforehand — because being surprised is cute, but being prepared is main character energy 👑

this script is meant to be invoked every single day by a cron job. it mails the actual reminders out. that's its whole job. it's giving loyal employee 🫶

here's the important part, bestie, don't skip it:

  • when run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders 👑
  • when run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that user 🙋‍♀️

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --help — displays the basic usage message. your classic "wait what does this do again" button 💅
  • --simulate — does not actually send any emails out. it's the dress rehearsal, not the show 🎭
  • --verbose — prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out. it will narrate its entire life to you, and honestly? iconic 📢
  • --version — displays the version number. for when you need to know which era of this script you're living in 🔢

📁 FILES 📁

  • ~/.config/email-reminder/reminders.xml
  • /etc/email-reminder.conf

those two. that's where the lore lives 🗂️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Francois Marier <francois@fmarier.org> — thank you for your service 🫡💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • email-reminder-editor
  • collect-reminders

go read those next, bestie, they're the rest of the friend group 🌸

Copyright (C) 2004-2025 by Francois Marier

Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 😭 (yes bestie, no warranty, we do not gatekeep the fine print)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

fr fr, that address is 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA — write it down, don't be that person who "forgot" 📮

and that's the whole page, babes 🫶 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-10-18, and it's the SEND-REMINDERS(1) manpage — slay, go set your cron job, and happy birthday to whoever you're about to remember 💖🎀✨

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