Automator workflow of the month: Sending holiday greetings
While the holiday season can bring both comfort and joy, it can also be one of the most hectic times of the year—one where you may be so distracted by one task that you neglect another. Take those holiday well-wishes that many of us email to friends, family, and business associates, for example. All too often we leave them to the last minute and, worse, remember them only when we’re on the road to grandma’s without laptop or Internet connection.
Not only can you compose your season's greetings weeks before the holidays, but you can schedule when they’re sent, thus ensuring that they hit your loved ones’ inboxes at the perfect moment. The means for doing this is OS X's Automator. Here are the steps for creating and automatically sending your holiday email messages with Mountain Lion.
Begin your festive workflow
Launch Automator (in your /Applications folder) and from the workflow template chooser select Calendar Alarm and click Choose. From the Library pane at the far left of the workflow window, select Mail and drag the New Mail Messageaction to the workflow area to the right.
in the Library pane, select Files & Folders and drag the Get Specified Finder Items action to that same workflow area. Select Mail in the Library pane and then drag Add Attachments to Front Message action to the workflow. Click on the Utilities item in the Library pane and drag Pause to the workflow. And finally, from that same Utilities library, add Run AppleScript to the workflow.
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