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

Question

I'm looking for an app (web or not) that will send me an email every 30 min until I stop it.

Why? When I'm working on a special type of support case, 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.

Any ideas what I can use? We use Exchange with Outlook 2010 here.

Answer 1

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

outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "customer@company.com?cc=boss@support.com&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: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248569/starting-outlook-and-having-an-email-pre-populated-from-command-line

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Rather than sending an email yourself, use OUTLOOK and set a remainder.

Refer Create a recurring calendar reminder