| Send Legacy Reminders
- new deluxe feature which sends out a daily "reminder"
email listing individuals and marriages whose birth,
death (V7 only), and marriage month/day match the current
date. Only those individuals and marriages whose
Legacy reminder flags are checked
will be listed. There is no actual
dialog for this feature. All the settings for this
feature are found under Options|Preferences
in the User and Reminders categories.
I may create a dialog for this feature at a
later date.
This new feature uses simple non-secure SMTP authentication
to send the emails,
so if you send email using other means (SSL,
TLS, etc.), this feature won't work for you.
If
you are a registered deluxe LTools user, you can
setup this feature by following these
steps...
- Start LTools.
- Go to Options|Preferences.
- In the User category...
- Set UserEmailAddress
to the email address you use to login to
your SMTP server (ex. "obi-wan@aol.com").
- Set UserEmailPassword
to the password you use to login to your
SMTP server (ex. "wookiee").
- Set UserSmtpServer
to your SMTP server's host name (ex.
"smtp.aol.com").
- Set UserSmtpPort
to the port you use to communicate with
your SMTP server ... leave as -1 if you want to
use the default port (ex. 587).
- In the Reminders category...
- Set ReminderBcc
to a comma separated list of email id's
you wish to Bcc the email to. By
default, this feature will address the
email to the
UserEmailAddress you entered, and
Bcc it to any additional addresses (ex.
"gramma@earthlink.net,unclefred@gmail.com,auntsophie@comcast.net").
- Change any other properties
in the Reminders category as desired.
- Close LTools.
The final step involves telling LTools to run
in "reminder" mode. There are several ways to
accomplish this, but the way I have set it up on
my PC is to add a scheduled task using
Start|Settings|Control Panel|Scheduled Tasks.
Here is what the task on my PC looks like...
Your settings will obviously have different
path names, computer names, and user names.
The key to starting the program in "reminder"
mode is to add the "-r" parameter to the command
line. This causes LTools to run silently, send
out the reminder email (if it needs to), and
shutdown.
If you have any questions regarding this new
feature, I suggest you ask them over in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools, so we
can all benefit from the discussion.
I have not added any Help for this
feature as of yet. I intend to do so after it
soaks for a while.
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