Alarm Notification/Second Alarm Was: [kronolith] Question About TheAlarm

[Jim Hale]

I agree - I think Email would be the best way to go - with the option
(when you create the event) for an alternate/additional Email
address(es) to send the notification to. :)

Jim Hale
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Booms [mailto:Thomas.Booms@booms-edv.de] 
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:43 AM
> To: Brandon Knitter
> Cc: Jim Hale; Mailing List - Kronolith
> Subject: Re: Alarm Notification/Second Alarm Was: [kronolith] 
> Question About TheAlarm
> 
> 
> Hello Jim,
> hello list,
> 
> Brandon Knitter schrieb:
> 
> > > How does the alarm notify you about an upcoming event? I 
> did a test 
> > > event with a 5 minute alarm but nothing happened. Is it 
> supposed to 
> > > send out an email? Make a ding? Do you have to be inside 
> Horde for 
> > > it to work?
> >
> > I think there was a thread a few weeks ago about this, and it turns 
> > out that there really is nothing.  I wrote a "hacked" perl script 
> > which goes directly to the DB and get's out the events and 
> figures out 
> > what to notify on.  I can try to translate this to PHP, but 
> I'm fairly 
> > rusty on that sort of thing.
> >
> > If people want the "alarming" type thing, I would probably 
> ask for a 
> > couple of db changes before I did it, I was thinking of an alarm 
> > timestamp or boolean thingy letting you know it was 
> alarmed.  This is 
> > because I run a cron job every 5 minutes to look for 
> upcoming alarms 
> > in the next 10 mintues.  I specifically look 10 minutes ahead to 
> > compensate for load and such that might cause the cron job 
> to be slow.  
> > After that, I "mark" the alarm at being notified, that way 
> I know not 
> > to notify again is I cause it in the next 5 minute run.
> >
> > I would say it's not the mopst efficient thing to do, but 
> it works for 
> > me! :) Incidentally, I email myself the alarm and 
> notification, which 
> > Blackebrry's me (pages me) with the info, that way I'm 
> notified, AND I 
> > have all the info with me! :)
> >
> > Lastly, is there any interest from anyone but me for an additional 
> > alarm, it's a Yahoo Calendar feature that I found cool before cause 
> > you could be notified 2 hours before a meeting so you knew to get 
> > prepared, and then say another one at 15 minutes before a 
> meeting so 
> > you knew to get your butt over there.  Let me know if 
> that'd be useful 
> > for some of you.
> 
> Yes, I want the alarming thing via (best) email. And I 
> believe it's not only me who wants that. For which other 
> reason is the alarming function in the calender shown? Only 
> for using it i think. And calendars need this feature. No 
> question for me.
> 
> Can you tell me the time when we can see a first solve? 1 
> week, 1 month...? I ask, because I have several people on my 
> server who are testing and reporting me problems and ideas 
> about all the nice horde modules which are installed on my machine.
> 
> BTW: I use horde since a few weeks and from all the projecs I 
> saw til now, horde is the best of all! :)
> 
> Very, very good work!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> >
> >
> > Take care,
> > bk
> >
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