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Mar 2006 02

Emailing upcoming actions to yourself

Posted by bsag

Luke Melia came up with an absolute gem of a tip on the tracks-discuss mailing list. If you enter the following command in your crontab on the server which runs your copy of Tracks 1.04, it will email you a list of the upcoming actions which are due within the next 7 days every day at 6 am (the command should be on one line, without the backslashes): 

0 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/curl -0 http://[tracks_url]/feed/text/[username]/[your_token]?due=6 | /usr/bin/mail -E -s 'Tracks actions due in the next 7 days' youremail@yourdomain.com

It’s easiest if you copy and paste the URL of the text feed from your feeds page. Of course you can choose any feed you like—why not email a list of next actions in a particular project to a group of colleagues who are working on the project?

Filed under: linux macosx tips

4 Comments

Picture of AJ PusateriAJ Pusateri
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 @ 17:51

I like the idea of being able to be emailed for upcoming actions, but has anyone attempted this with a (I know ugh) Windows XP setup yet?
At this point in time I do not have the resources to have a Linux server available to me.

Picture of TimTim
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 @ 04:27

I used a program called mailsend.  Basically the same script, but, check the switches because they’re a little different.

Picture of blaznblazn
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 @ 12:42

Sweet!! Thanks for the reply.

Picture of blaznblazn
Fri, 9 Nov 2007 @ 14:14

I was able to get “Tracks” loaded and working on a Ubuntu box finally! I also have gotten the email portion working finally. The issue I am having now is that when I open the email I get a mesage:
“Sorry, you don’t have permission to view this page.”

I don’t understand why I would get that particular message.
Here is the feed:

Nov 9 06:00:01 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[12686]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/curl -0 http://tracks:2000/feed/text/svms/1000?due=6 | /usr/bin/mail -e -s ‘Tracks actions due in the next 7 days’ apusateri@svms.***)

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