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mini_mei

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question about CiviMail and smart groups
July 03, 2007, 07:37:13 am
I want to create a smart group that looks if a contact's birthday is today and if so automatically sends them a mail
(that's already uploaded of course so I guess this would be a resend) is this possible, and if so how?

I've had a look into the Search Builder Documentation and in the Special Search Criteria for Dates it only said
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Use YYYYMMDD format. Example: Enter August 18, 2006 as 20060818
but nothing about a "today" ...and I can't create 365 smart groups just to get every day

also can that mail (just a simple "happy Birthday mail") be sended automatically (cronjob ?) or would I have to check
every day if a contact is in that smart group on that day?

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Re: question about CiviMail and smart groups
July 03, 2007, 08:18:26 am

Unfortunately you cannot do the below in CiviCRM easily today. Your best option is to do the below by writing a custom PHP script to get the information from CiviCRM (using the api's) and send them mail. You can then run the script on a daily basis using cron

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mini_mei

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Re: question about CiviMail and smart groups
July 03, 2007, 08:24:19 am
oh bummer.....
well thank you for the quick reply lobo!

businessbroker

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Re: question about CiviMail and smart groups
December 14, 2008, 06:15:34 pm
it is now possible to do it now? how is gone this task? do you need help in it?
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