How to send myself an email every 30 min as a reminder?

Question

How to send an email to myself every 30 min, until I stop it?

I'm working on a special type of support case and I need to update my clients every 30 min. So, if I received an email every 30 min that contained the template, I would just need to fill in the blanks and forward it on. Easy.

Solution 1

Schedule a recurring Windows task (Control Panel -> Schedule Task) to run a command line like:

outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "[email protected][email protected]&subject=Status%20Report&body=Dear%Customer" /a attachment.txt

and set the recurrence to 5 min before you need to answer, then up pops the message window and you can type in the status.

also have a look at this one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/248569/starting-outlook-and-having-an-email-pre-populated-from-command-line

Solution 2

You can have a look at IFTTT for this kind of automated job.

Solution 3

You can try Boomerang plugin for chrome if you are using Gmail and chrome. You can nicely schedule the email

Please check this.. http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

A good read -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239087

Solution 4

I'm a UNIX geek, so I'd set up Cygwin with a cronjob that would do this. If there are any UNIX machines where you're at, I'd ask for a cronjob on them to do this.

I know there is a Windows scheduler, you could probably find some utility that can send emails, and schedule that on the Windows side.

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Comments

[Rich Homolka]

I was thinking this too, but the OQ wants to use the email.

[Siva Charan]

Basically sending an email to self, it will become a spam...

[Craig]

This site is fantastic. Looks like an hour is the smallest unit of time, but that might be okay. And I'll update my Facebook status at the same time!

[Bibhas]

Maybe setup two same tasks, each running 30 minutes apart? :)