Email Reminders

[youngp]

I am just wondering what the best way to send email reminders is. Do just a cron job? Or is there something that would be better that I do not know about?

[PradeepKr]

Yes cron jobs are best email reminders. You can check some of the examples here. One shell script is also provided by the writer there.

[Desdinova]

I'd say cron.

[PradeepKr]

If time based mail is needed then cron is best.
But, if even based mail is need then PHP mail() function could be the only way. Cron cannot be used in such cases.

By events I mean like some user visited your page (identified by IP) or some error occurred while some processing.