[ic] How to send reminder email??

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Doug Alcorn)]

Alma Nuker <alma@youramigo.com> writes:

> I am trying to work out how to send an reminder email?? For example
> I want to send reminder email for maintenence 20 days before it is
> due as well as 5 days before maintenenace is due.

I'm guessing this is annual maintenance?  This would obviously require
a modification the the default catalogs; but, not really a problem.
You would just need to have a new column in the userdb for the
maintenance date (you could even make this a comma separated list).
Then when the order is placed make a modification to the order routing
to update that column of the database.  Then write a cron job
(external to IC) that would go through every night and mail out
notifications.

This might be a good time to put in a plug for the Date::Manip perl
module.  It lets you do cool things like:

$maintenance = ParseDate("3/20/2002"); # or any other convenient
                                       # format
if (!Date_Cmp($maintenance, DateCalc("today", "+ 5 days"))) {
  # dates are equal
  # mail out 5 day reminder
} elsif (!Date_Cmp($maintenance, DateCalc("today", "+ 20 days"))) {
  # dates are equal
  # mail out 20 day reminder
}

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