Simple Event Reminder Example

The following example shows the default event reminder message format:

1  EVENT REMINDER
 2  ~~MIME-Version: 1.0%N
 3  ~~Content-Type: text/plain; charset=%s%N
 4  ~~Content-Transfer-Encoding: %x%N%N
 5      Summary: %s%N
 6        Start: %(%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p)B%N
 7        End: (%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p)E%N
 8      Location: %L%N%N
 9  Description: %N%d%N

         

The description of each line in this example is:

• Line 1 is the message subject.

• Line 2 begins with ~~, which indicates that it is a MIME wrapper line. That is, the replacement of special character sequences are those associated with an internal MIME object rather than an event or task. The special sequence %N is a line feed. The subject line does not need the special new line sequence, while all other lines do.

• Line 3 is also a MIME header line. It contains the special character sequence %s, which will be replaced by the character set associated with the event or task being mailed.

• Line 4 is the last MIME line, %x is the content transfer encoding string needed for this message.

• Line 5 lists the event summary and calls out the event summary with %s.

• Line 6 lists the event start time. It makes use of a sub-format string on the special character sequence %B. For details, see Date Sub-Formatting.

• Line 7 lists the event end time.

• Line 8 lists the location of the event.

• Line 9 lists the description of the event.

The following sample resembles the notification message generated by the above example:

From: jsmith@sesta.com (James Smith)
 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1999 19:13:49
 To: jsmith@sesta.com
 Subject: EVENT REMINDER
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
   Summary: smtp_rig event 1
       Start: Tues, 16 Nov 1999 02:00 PM
       End: Tues, 16 Nov 1999 03:00 PM
   Location: Green Conference Room
   Description: This is the description for a randomly generated event.