Can anyone point me in some direction for how I can do this?

I have a customer who wants to be able to send mailing list subscribers a birthday ecard automatically. Of course he wants the whole mailing list process to be automated, too. I've used Dada Mail for mailing lists on several sites, but I'm not familiar with any means of automatic sending of birthday ecards. Does anyone know of a mailing list script which will do this, or an outsourced mailing list service, or anything else?

Thanks!

Nothing pre-designed comes to mind. However, if you have any programming ability and access to a subscription service like mailman that supports cron jobs, then you can automate the mailling list through mailman and setup a custom cron job to automatically run a process (like sending birthday cards to everyone with a birthday that day).

Not an easy thing to do. There would be several steps:

1. Create a way to collect everyones birthdays when they sign up for the list and store it in a database of some sort
2. Setup the cron job
3. Setup a means for the cron job to get the info from the database

I had to do something similar for a client that send out an enewsletter every month to the subscriberbase. Only thing is that every month the email went to everyone on the list (much simpler than what you're trying to do).

Possible, just not easy. If you do find something pre-designed, I'd love to hear about it

shardinite -- I found out this hosted service can be set up to do it:

http://www.ghiis.com/auto_cleanair/index.html