Re: diary-mail-entries

[aalinovi@riseup.net]

It appears I spoke to soon.

In ~/.emacs.d/init.el I have:

(require 'midnight)
(midnight-delay-set 'midnight-delay "0:40am")

In midnight customization, the only thing I changed was to add
"diary-mail-entries" to "Midnight hook".

My problem is that not only does dairy-mail-entry run at 40 minutes
after midnight, it also runs each and everytime I start emacs.

I know some people keep emacs running for weeks or even months at a
time. I don't work like that. I am retired and use my laptop to browse
the web, read emails, etc. When I'm done I shut down and then boot up
later in the day if I feel like it. Having emacs send me an email each
time is not what I want.

If anyone has any ideas I would be grateful.

Thanks,

Arthur

aalinovi@riseup.net writes:
>Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>>>>>> aalinovi  <aalinovi@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> I am running emacs-28.2 on OpenBSD-current. I will state at the outset t=
>hat I
>> do no know lisp but have acquired a copy of Robert Chassell's "Emacs Lis=
>p: An
>> Introduction" and have started going thru it.
>
>> After several hours of experimenting I have finally got M-x
>> diary-mail-entries to work. What I now need is to enable that in a cron =
>job
>> to run each night. Not knowing lisp I have no idea where or how to begin=
>.
>
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.  Thank you.  Arthur
>
>>>Hi,
>
>>>short answer, pressed for time:  The help for `diary-mail-entries' has
>>>an example script: "C-h f diary-mail-entries".
>
>>>But I think this can be handled by the "midnight.el" library, already
>>>included:  "run something every midnight, e.g., kill old buffers".
>
>I couldn't get the example script to run but I did get "midnight.el"
>(which I didn't even know existed) to work.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Arthur