Automatically send e-mail

[melinav]

Hi!

I need some free tools that would allow me to automatically send e-mails to somebody acoording to the current date (e.g. if I have a table in a database with some fellows and their birthdays, I would like to automatically send them a greeting e-mail, when their birthday is). I would preffer that tool be installed as a service.
It will be just fine if I will be able to use this tool in an ASP site.

Otherwise, how could I program such a tool (and what language would be the most appropriate)?

Thanks. Melina

[Ribeyed]

Hi,
this cannot be achieved through ASP alone. Some how the code needs to run before the emails are send, this would mean you would have to view the page in the browser everyday to trigger the automatic emails.
To answer your question on how this is done this is normally set up in SQL Server.

Hope this helps

[buntine]

Ribeyed is correct. ASP must be invoked by the end-user before the source code will be executed.

Just to expand, you could create such an application in Java or Visual Basic (not to mention 100's of other languages). VB is user friendly and has similar syntax to VBScript which is the standard language used for ASP applications.