[Allblack]

hi guys,

I need to develop a survey. It looks pretty straightforward except for the fact that it needs to email the participant after 3 weeks of submitting the survey.

I actually need to do it in ASP but I would also like to see a PHP solution

[Dolda2000]

Well, I don't know how to do it in ASP, but in PHP on a POSIX system, just make it call the following shell code (be sure to get the quoting right):

echo 'mail -s Subject address@mail.tld </path/to/message' | at now + 3 weeks

At least I'd say that's the easiest.

[Allblack]

The PHP solution above that Dolda gave does not work. I have fiddled around a bit and tried the following:

<?
`mail -s subject me@mydomain.com | at now + 5`
?>

I also tried

`mail -s subject me@mydomain.com` | at now + 5

These get send immediately and not after 5 minutes. Does anyone have another idea?

Cheers

[Allblack]

I have given up on the idea. I did not think about the fact that the ATQ will be emptied at reboot and this can cause problems

[kpzani]

why not setup a database which stores these addresses and dates for the emails. then write a script to do the emailing. then set a cron job to run the script every night