5 Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions
9 Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.
13 Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be
14 reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays,
15 anniversaries and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of
16 the event and a few days beforehand.
18 This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job. It mails
19 the actual reminders out.
21 When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders.
22 When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
31 Displays basic usage message.
35 Does not actually send any emails out.
39 Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the
40 full emails being sent out.
44 Displays the version number.
50 F<~/.email-reminders>, F</etc/email-reminder.conf>
54 Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>
58 email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders
62 Copyright (C) 2004-2009 by Francois Marier
64 Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
65 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
66 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
67 License, or (at your option) any later version.
69 Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
70 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
71 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
72 General Public License for more details.
74 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
75 along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software
76 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
87 use MIME
::QuotedPrint
;
90 use EmailReminder
::EventList
;
91 use EmailReminder
::Utils
;
92 use Date
::Manip
qw(ParseDate UnixDate);
95 my $PREFERENCE_FILE = '/etc/email-reminder.conf';
97 $preferences{"send_reminders"} = 1;
98 $preferences{"smtp_server"} = 'localhost';
99 $preferences{"smtp_ssl"} = 0;
100 $preferences{"smtp_username"} = '';
101 $preferences{"smtp_password"} = '';
102 $preferences{"mail_from"} = 'root@localhost';
109 # Command-line parameters
114 GetOptions
( "verbose" => \
$verbose,
115 "simulate" => \
$simulate,
116 "version" => \
$version,
120 # Override preferences with system values
123 print "Reading preferences from '$PREFERENCE_FILE'\n" if $verbose;
125 if (open my $config_fh, '<', $PREFERENCE_FILE) {
126 # Stolen off of the Cookbook (section 8.16)
127 while (<$config_fh>) {
129 s/#.*//; # no comments
130 s/^\s+//; # no leading white
131 s/\s+$//; # no trailing white
132 next unless length; # anything left?
133 my ($var, $value) = split(/\s*=\s*/, $_, 2);
134 $preferences{$var} = $value;
139 print "Warning: cannot read configuration file at $PREFERENCE_FILE.\nMake sure that the user running $0 has read permissions on that configuration file.\n";
149 my $user_name = shift;
150 my $user_email = shift;
152 unless ($user_email) {
156 my $to = $user_email;
157 $to = "$user_name <$user_email>" if ($user_name);
159 print "--> Emailing '$to':\n".encode
("UTF-8", $subject."\n\n".$message) if $verbose;
162 my $smtp_server = '';
163 if ($preferences{"smtp_server"} =~ /^([A-Za-z_0-9\-\/.]+)$/) {
167 if ($preferences{"smtp_ssl"}) {
168 eval 'use Net::SMTP::SSL';
169 die "Couldn't load module : $!" if ($@
);
170 $smtp = Net
::SMTP
::SSL
->new($smtp_server, Port
=> 465, Debug
=> 0);
174 $smtp = Net
::SMTP
->new($smtp_server, Debug
=> 0);
176 die "Error: couldn't connect to server '$smtp_server'\n" unless $smtp;
178 # SMTP SASL authentication (if necessary)
179 if ($preferences{"smtp_username"} and $preferences{"smtp_password"}) {
180 unless ($smtp->auth($preferences{"smtp_username"}, $preferences{"smtp_password"})) {
181 die "Error: authentication with the SMTP server failed with error code ".$smtp->status."\n";
185 unless ($smtp->mail($preferences{"mail_from"})) {
186 die "Error: the sending address was not accepted. Try setting the 'mail_from' variable to a valid email address in the configuration file\n";
190 $ok = $ok && $smtp->to($to);
191 $ok = $ok && $smtp->data();
192 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("From: Email-Reminder <" . $preferences{"mail_from"} . ">\n");
194 # Create an RFC822 compliant date (current time)
195 my $rfc822_format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M %z";
196 my $today = ParseDate
("Now");
197 my $rfc822_date = UnixDate
($today,$rfc822_format);
198 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("Date: $rfc822_date\n");
200 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("To: $to\n");
201 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("Subject: =?utf-8?B?".encode_base64
(encode
("UTF-8", $subject), '')."?=\n");
202 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("Mime-Version: 1.0\n");
203 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n");
204 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("Content-Disposition: inline\n");
205 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n");
206 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend("\n");
207 $ok = $ok && $smtp->datasend(encode_qp
(encode
("UTF-8", $message)));
208 $ok = $ok && $smtp->dataend();
212 die "Error: could not mail the reminder out\n" unless $ok;
218 sub send_author_wishes
220 my $user_name = shift;
221 my $user_email = shift;
223 print "--> Processing event Email-Reminder Author's Birthday\n" if $verbose;
225 my $today = ParseDate
('now');
226 my $current_month = UnixDate
($today, '%m');
227 my $current_day = UnixDate
($today, '%d');
229 if (1 == $current_month and 30 == $current_day) {
230 print "--> Event Email-Reminder Author's Birthday is occurring\n" if $verbose;
232 my $recipient_name = 'Francois Marier';
233 my $recipient_email = 'francois@email-reminder.org.nz';
234 my $subject = 'Happy birthday from an email-reminder user';
235 my $message = <<"MESSAGEEND";
238 Happy birthday and thank you for email-reminder!
244 Sent by Email-Reminder $EmailReminder::Utils::VERSION
245 http://www.email-reminder.org.nz/
248 if (!send_email
($message, $subject, $recipient_name, $recipient_email)) {
260 print "==> Processing $file\n" if $verbose;
262 my $list = EmailReminder
::EventList
->new($file);
264 my @fullname = $list->get_user_name();
265 my $user_fname = $fullname[0];
266 my $user_lname = $fullname[1];
267 my $user_name = $user_fname;
268 $user_name .= " " . $user_lname if defined($user_lname);
269 my $user_email = $list->get_user_email();
271 foreach my $event ($list->get_events()) {
272 print '--> Processing event '.$event->get_name()."\n" if $verbose;
274 if ($event->is_occurring()) {
275 print '--> Event '.$event->get_name()." is occurring\n" if $verbose;
278 if (!process_event
($event, $user_name, $user_email)) {
283 print '!!! Error while sending reminder for '.$event->get_name()."\n" if $verbose;
285 my $msg = 'WARNING: Due to an error, the email reminder for Event "' . $event->get_name() .
286 '" cannot be processed and all I could do was to let you know that there was a problem.';
287 $msg .= "\n\n".'Since this event is OCCURRING TODAY, you should really check your reminders manually.';
288 $msg .= "\n\n".'Please report this problem to the email-reminder author so that it can be fixed in future versions:';
289 $msg .= "\n\n".' Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>';
290 $msg .= "\n\n".'Thanks!';
291 my $subject = 'Email-reminder ERROR: ' . $event->get_name();
293 if (!send_email
($msg, $subject, $user_name, $user_email)) {
300 if ($list->get_author_wishes()) {
301 send_author_wishes
($user_name, $user_email);
307 # Send reminders for an event which is occurring
311 my $user_name = shift;
312 my $user_email = shift;
314 my $subject = $event->get_subject();
316 my @recipients = @
{$event->get_recipients()};
317 if ($#recipients > -1) {
318 foreach my $recipient (@recipients) {
319 my $recipient_email = shift @
{$recipient};
320 my $recipient_fname = shift @
{$recipient};
321 my $recipient_lname = shift @
{$recipient};
323 my $recipient_name = $recipient_fname;
324 $recipient_name .= " $recipient_lname" if defined($recipient_lname);
326 my $msg = $event->get_message($recipient_fname);
327 if ($msg && !send_email
($msg, $subject, $recipient_name, $recipient_email)) {
332 my $msg = $event->get_message($user_fname);
333 if ($msg && !send_email
($msg, $subject, $user_name, $user_email)) {
341 my $running_uid = $>;
342 if (0 == $running_uid) {
343 print STDERR
"Warning: for security reasons, this script should not be not as root.\n";
346 my $spool_dir = $EmailReminder::Utils
::SPOOL_DIRECTORY
;
348 # Iterate through all spooled files
349 while (defined(my $file = glob("$spool_dir/*"))) {
351 if ($file =~ /^([A-Za-z_0-9\-\/]+)$/) {
354 print STDERR
"Skipped unclean filename" if $verbose;
358 unless (process_file
($file, 0, 1)) {
362 # Delete the file once we're done with it
363 unless (unlink($file)) {
364 print STDERR
"Could not remove $file.\n" if $verbose;
369 # Normal users only get to test their own reminders
370 my @pwinfo = getpwuid($>);
371 my $homedir = $pwinfo[7];
372 my $file = "$homedir/" . $EmailReminder::Utils
::USER_CONFIG_FILE
;
375 return process_file
($file, 0, 1);
377 print STDERR
"Warning: could not find your .email-reminders file.\n";
383 if ($help || $version) {
384 print "send-reminders $EmailReminder::Utils::VERSION\n";
389 } elsif ($preferences{"send_reminders"}) {
391 print STDERR
"Could not send reminders.\n";