Email-reminder

Upgrade to email-reminder 0.7.5 to save your marriage!

2009-03-12T08:50:00.003+13:00

The new email-reminder 0.7.5, fixes a bug, introduced in 0.7.4, which all users of the anniversary event type will want to get. Without it, many anniversary events were not being sent. The latest version may therefore help save your marriage by:

fixing this bug
adding a relevant test to the regression suite
reporting similarly unexpected errors by email instead of aborting

It also includes a minor fix to the salutation blurb when sending reminders to a third-party and a new checkbox in the preferences of the graphical editor.

Finally, the Net::SMTP::SSL Perl module is now truly optional and no errors will be returned if you don't have it installed.

email-reminder 0.7.4 now available

2008-11-20T11:55:00.003+13:00

A new version of email-reminder is now available and it now includes support for SSL-enhanced SMTP servers with this new configuration option:

smtp_ssl = 1

This release also eliminates the "No reminders found for..." message that some users reporting getting from their cron log.

New source repository and bug tracker

2008-07-03T23:28:00.001+12:00

I have just moved the source code repository for email-reminder to a git repository. Aside from git being a great distributed revision control system, this move was intended to allow easier collaboration with outside contributors.

So go ahead, work on email-reminder, commit your changes and send me those patches you've always been meaning to upstream :)

As a complement to this new distributed repository, I have also added an embedded cil repository to keep track of bugs and future enhancements. Give it a try, it's a fantastic little command-line issue tracker that works beautifully with git. Then send some more ideas to Andy.

Roadmap now available

2008-04-14T09:11:00.001+12:00

I have just posted a roadmap to give users an idea of where I want to take email-reminder (in terms of new features) in the next few releases.

If you want to help with any of those, feel free to send patches or comments on how to best implement specific features. For example, I'm not completely sure how Perl projects usually handle internationalization, so any advice on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

As always, feel free to suggest new features (and report bugs/annoyances) through the issue tracker.

Email-reminder 0.7.3 Released

2008-04-13T17:56:00.003+12:00

This small release fixes:

the encoding of accented characters in the subject line of emails
various small issues related to the home directories of users

Note that you can now subscribe to the official Email-reminder news feed if you want to receive notifications of new releases and other important announcements.

Email-reminder 0.7.2 Released

2008-02-22T16:46:00.002+13:00

If you use any accented characters, upgrade now! This version fixes a problem where your reminders file (written in the XML format) can become unreadable by email-reminder-editor after you save some accented characters in the event name.

This release also makes it possible to send UTF-8 encoded email messages so that accented characters can make it to the emails.

Email-reminder 0.7.1 Released

2008-01-13T16:46:00.000+13:00

This version of email-reminder only adds a (somewhat important) warning message when the configuration file (/etc/email-reminder.conf) cannot be read.

Some people reported problems with their settings being ignored and the cause of that problem was that the user running send-reminders didn't have read permissions on the config file.

Users of the Debian and Ubuntu packages are more likely to have run into this problem. Please update your packages to the latest version.

Email-reminder 0.7.0 Released

2007-12-13T16:45:00.000+13:00

A new version of email-reminder has just been released. It includes security enhancements to reduce the amount of trusted code in the package and a new SMTP authentication feature suggested by Zachary Aaron Puthoff.

As usual, please let me know if you find anything that doesn't work.

Now hosted on Google Code

2007-10-29T15:44:00.000+13:00

Email-reminder is now hosted on Google Code. Feel free to use the issue tracker there to report bugs. You can also browse the email-reminder subversion repository.

Email-reminder 0.6.0 Released

2007-08-14T14:43:00.000+12:00

Version 0.6.0 now includes monthly and weekly recurrences so that you can remember to pay rent and take the garbage out! email-reminder will from now on be released under the terms of the GPLv3.

Email-reminder 0.5.7 Released

2007-05-30T14:42:00.000+12:00

Email-reminder is not dead! Despite the fact that it hasn't seen much development in the last year, I still use email-reminder every day and care about it :) Here's a small bugfix release which fixes a bug reported by Ron Guerin regarding a missing date header. If the emails sent by email-reminder have weird dates in them, this should take care of them.

Email-reminder 0.5.6 Released

2005-12-12T16:41:00.000+13:00

It improves the display of the occurence in advance notifications and it adds support for sending reminders to more than one email address through the tag in the XML (see the updated example).

Email-reminder 0.5.5 Released

2005-08-27T14:40:00.000+12:00

It features a suggestion made by txemi: show the occurence date in advance notifications.

Email-reminder 0.5.4 Released

2005-06-08T14:40:00.000+12:00

The only change is a one-line fix to the name of the system configuration file. The name was incorrect and the settings were never read by the send-reminder script.

Email-reminder 0.5.3 Released

2005-04-26T14:39:00.000+12:00

Events occurring on February 29th are now supported. Also, there is now a way to specify the email address where each event will be sent ( and tags from within -- see the examples).

Email-reminder 0.5.2 Released

2005-02-01T16:38:00.000+13:00

Fixes a minor bug in the subject line of advance notifications of birthdays.

Email-reminder 0.5.1 Released

2004-09-09T14:36:00.000+12:00

Fixes the path of the send-reminders script in the example cron job so that reminders are actually sent out now.

Screenshots

2004-09-08T18:27:00.003+12:00

Here's what the GTK editor looks like:

Here is an example of what you get in your inbox for an upcoming birthday:

From: Email-Reminder
Date: Tue, 12 May 2007 04:00:22 -0400 (EDT)
To: Francois Marier 
Subject: Trent Reznor's birthday

Hi Francois,

I just want to remind you that Trent Reznor is
turning 42 in 5 days.

You can reach Trent Reznor at trent@example.com.

Have a good day!

--
Sent by Email-Reminder

And here is one on the day of an anniversary:

From: Email-Reminder
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1996 04:00:11 -0400 (EDT)
To: Francois Marier 
Subject: 15th anniversary of Prince Charles and Lady Diana

Hi Francois,

I just want to remind you that the 15th anniversary
(Crystal) of Prince Charles and Lady Diana is today.

Have a good day!

--
Sent by Email-Reminder

Email-reminder 0.5.0 Released

2004-09-08T14:24:00.000+12:00

First public release.