re:diary-mail-entries

[aalinovi]

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 that I
> do no know lisp but have acquired a copy of Robert Chassell's "Emacs Lisp: 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