C[omp]ute

From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 20:19:00 -0300

Every evening I write an email summarizing my work that should be sent
9am next (work) day.  It struck me that it would make more sense to
automate this (I forget to send it), and the following approach works
quite well.

First, I write the email in mutt, which saves things in maildir
format.  So I created a new folder for this email (0-today for reasons
you don't care about).

Then I wrote the following script:

  #!/bin/bash

  n=`ls -1 ${HOME}/mail/.0-today/cur/* | wc -l`
  if [ "$n" -eq "1" ]
  then
      sudo sendmail -t < ${HOME}/mail/.0-today/cur/*
      rm ${HOME}/mail/.0-today/cur/*
  fi

which simply checks that folder and sends the email.  The "sendmail
-t" takes the "to" from the headers, which is what I want (since it's
in the To" header of the already written email).

Finally a cron job ties everything together.  Lets hope I don't spam
all my coworkers tomorrow morning...

Andrew