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iCal to Schedule Mail

I'm hoping one or two of you wizards can help me with this (my son is in bed).

I need to send a prewritten email to a list of people at the same time every week, as a reminder. If I could do this with iCal it would be great. Ideally it would be as simple as it is to send an email to myself as a reminder via iCal.

Any suggestions appreciated,

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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I took this one step further

I am trying to help my teenage son organize a bit and he has been having a hard time remembering to look at his assignments or next action list. I used this to set up an automated sms message to go to him at a specific time every few days to get him in the habit of checking his lists. Basically the only thing I changed was the email address was 5555555555@messaging.phonecarrier.com (each carrier is different and you have to look that up) - works like a charm!

Thanks
em :)

 
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