email birthday reminder jail

[John Doe]

hi all,

since i have serious issues to remind birthdays, I tried out the calendar on my iphone, but that sucks as well, especially if I want to move to a different platform one day.

so I thought about a freenas jail, that just send me an email on a specific date.


does someone know a project like this or has hints how to do that?

 

[Tigersharke]

I am not sure exactly how the email portion would be handled, as I have not setup such a thing myself, but for the scheduling of the task there is cron which is built-in to FreeBSD and likely remains present on FreeNAS as well.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Well, most if not all integrated calendar products can do that out of the box. Going all the way setting up SOGo might be a bit overkill, possibly someone else can suggest a lean alternative?
The calendar plugin in Nextcloud can do it and Nextcloud might come handy for other purposes, too.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Maybe something like this Docker container will work for you?

GitHub - stewartpark/bdayreminder: Birthday Reminder built for drchrono

Birthday Reminder built for drchrono. Contribute to stewartpark/bdayreminder development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[John Doe]

sogo might really be a good way. I also thought about a web gui to have all my different email accounts centralized. in case that adds a calendar to send email notification on events, that would be awesome.

 

[John Doe]

I went with the nextcloud calendar, since sogo is not well enough documented for me to get it working.
for the email thing I went with rainloop