[Mailman-Users] Crontab to mail certain text to a list

[Mel Sojka]

ODHIAMBO Washington wrote:
 
> I am running a few lists and I have been asked to send out an e-mail with
> some defined/standard text to a certain list. This text should be sent on
> the 28th and on the 3rd of each month.
> I am not a member of that list. I know I could explicitly specify my
> e-mail address to be allowed to send the message, but I don't want to
> appear anywhere ;-) It would be nice if the e-mails containing this
> text originated from, say, list-admin.
Well the simple way would use elm. The -s function would allow you to
send a text message from a home directory. Create a user called monthly
in cron make an entry for the proper day and time. That would be a cron
entry for user monthly. Then elm -s the text file.
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