Send Self Reminders To Your Email From The Command Line
The following will allow you to send self reminders/TODO items to your Email at a specific time.
For example, if you want to remind yourself to submit an assignment at 15:20, you’ll be able to run this command to do it:
tdr “submit assignment” 15:20
This will send an Email to you, with the subject: [TODO] submit assignment. Email will be sent at 15:20.
To be able to do this, you migh need to configure your mail command (see my post about this).
Then, add this function to your ~/.bashrc file (or any file sources in bashrc):
Send Email from the Command Line using Gmail Account
Sometimes you want to send a quick/short E-mail to somebody, send a TODO item to yourself, or let a script/program Email you when it’s done. For these I found the Linux mail command very useful.
Using it is as easy as typing:
mail -s “Subject” receipt@domain.com
Then enter the message and end it with [ctrl]+[D].
However, if your ISP s!#$% like mine, you’ll discover that no mail was really sent.
To work around this, I wanted to configure my mail program to use Gmail’s SMTP server.
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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