Run an IMAP Tickler file via a Cron script
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Zak Greant’s
But it does have one small drawback for some people. Its mailboxes are stored in your Local Folders. If you use more than one Mac to assess a central
One way around this is to run a Tickler file with
Ted Pavlic has found another work-around for this which he posted in the comments on the GTD AppleScript post.
He runs a centralised Tickler file on his IMAP server using this
# NOTE: The mailutil below has had the maildir patch applied.
# Set things to eastern time zone to keep things in sync
export TZ=EST5EDT
# Get the valid strings
DAY=`date +%d`
WEEK=`echo “($DAY - 1)/7 + 1″|bc`
# On the first day of the month, push monthly notes into inbox
if [ "$DAY" == "01" ]; then
THISMONTH=`date +%m-%b`
/home/tedpavlic/bin/mailutil appenddelete “/home/tedpavlic/.imap/.@TICKLER.Month.$THISMONTH/” “/home/tedpavlic/.imap/.@INBOX/”
fi
# On every day, push dailies
/home/tedpavlic/bin/mailutil appenddelete “/home/tedpavlic/.imap/.@TICKLER.Week$WEEK.$DAY/” “/home/tedpavlic/.imap/.@INBOX/”
