[Zope] MS Access follow-followup

[J. Cameron Cooper]

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>1> Does Zope on Win32 have the ability to automatically execute an event,
>such as send an automated email on a given date? I imagine the worst case
>scenario is to have an external method that calls a script that writes an NT
>Task Scheduler entry that sends out a form email with all the required
>blanks filled in. I'm hoping that there's either a product or that Zope has
>that functionality builtin, so I can manage it all from within Zope.
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You don't have to go in that many circles. Make a Zope method that does 
whatever (send an email) and have your OS's scheduler call that method 
on whatever time interval you want. On a Unix this would be done with 
cron and wget. On WinWhatever there's apparently the "Task Scheduler" 
and the nasty little 'at' commands, but I don't know a lightweight way 
to call Zope methods. You might have to write a little Python script or 
something to poke the right URL.

Or, take a look for the Xron product, which is probably the much easier 
(and XP) way to go. There's also rumblings of an event channel over at 
the CMF, but I don't think that's really helpful here.

                --jcc
            (cross platform)