SEND-REMINDERS(1p)

💌 SEND-REMINDERS(1p) 💌

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the send-reminders page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and it is literally the little script that makes sure you never forget your bestie's birthday again 🎂✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Send-reminders — send email reminders for special occasions 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.

Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: Email-reminder lets users define events that they want to be reminded of by email. 📧 The possible events include birthdays, anniversaries and yearly events. And the reminders can be sent on the day of the event, and a few days beforehand — because nobody wants to be caught off guard, fr fr. 🙈

This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job. ⏰ It mails the actual reminders out. That's its whole job, that's its whole main character moment.

Now, here's the part where who you are matters:

• 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. 💅

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• --help — Displays basic usage message. Your lil "what do I do here" button 🫶
• --simulate — Does not actually send any emails out. A practice run, a rehearsal, no emails leave the building 💀
• --verbose — Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out. 👀 Like, the whole thing. Spill it all.
• --version — Displays the version number. ⭐

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🎀 FILES 🎀

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

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Francois Marier <francois@fmarier.org> — thank you for your service, icon 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• email-reminder-editor
• collect-reminders

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2004-2014 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.

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.

no cap, that warranty disclaimer is doing a lot of heavy lifting — read it, bestie 😭

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅✨

this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-05-04 — so like, shoutout to that version and that date, they're iconic, they ate, mwah 🎀🦋💖