Howto Automat email message sent every 10 min

jeff story · 2010-10-14 21:33:04

I want to send an automated, repeating email to facebook requesting they delete my account.
How could I automate this process? cron?
I'd like to send an automated, repeat email every 10 min until my account is deleted and confirmed by them.

My sister set me up a facebook account a few years ago on a Christmas gathering.
I don't need/want a facebook account and have tried dozens of times to delete it.
I have continued to receive email's notifying me of activity such as relatives, people I know friend request, etc, etc.

Today I sent facebook privacy@facebook.com the following email:

Request that Facebook deletes my account.

   

PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT ** there was nothing here **

Your site makes it ridiculously difficult to delete an account!!!
I have no dought this is intentional on your part, but not sure your
motivation for this.

I HATE FACEBOOK AND WANT MY ACCOUNT DELETED.

I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT DOZENS OF TIMES AND KEEP GETTING
EMAIL ABOUT MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT ACTIVITY..........

PLEASE DELETE IMMEDIATELY WITH NO POSSIBILITY OF EVER RESTORING,
REGARDLESS OF THE "TRICKS" YOU IMPLEMENT TO PREVENT IT.

PLEASE REPLY WITH CONFIRMATION!!!

And get this as a reply:

Hi,

Thanks for your inquiry. Unfortunately, we cannot respond to all requests that we receive at this address.

If you need to contact Facebook regarding the issues below, you will find contact forms within the appropriate Help Center FAQs. Using the appropriate contact forms will help us provide you with a faster and more personal response than you would receive by replying to this email.
        
• Warned or Disabled Accounts
If you have received a warning about your activity on the site, or your account has been disabled, please refer to the Warnings page in the Help Center for further support:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=warnings

• Hacked or "Phished" Accounts
If your account or a friend's account has sent out spam, please refer to our Security page for ways to properly report this activity:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=security

• Trouble Accessing Your Account
If you are experiencing difficulty logging in to your Facebook account, please visit the following Help Center pages for more information:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=174
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=749

• Privacy Issues
For information and avenues of support for privacy issues on Facebook, please visit the Privacy page of our Help Center:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=privacy

• Permanently Deleting Your Account
If you do not think you will use Facebook again and you would like to delete your account, you can learn how to do this by navigating to the following page:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=13016

• Reporting Abusive Content and Blocking People
To report abuse, please use the "Report" link that appears next to many pieces of content on the site. You may also report another user by using the "Report/Block" link that appears at the bottom of a user's profile page. If this does not resolve the issue, we suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the "Block List" box that appears at the bottom of the Privacy page.

If you have blocked (or been blocked by) a person who posted content that you believe is abusive, please have another user report the content or the responsible individual.

• Technical Issues
For solutions to technical issues, please visit the Troubleshooting page of our Help Center at the following address:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=troubleshooting

• Common Questions about Using Facebook
For answers to common questions and feedback from other Facebook users, please visit our Help Center for further support:
http://www.facebook.com/help.php

If you are writing about a privacy issue that is not addressed in Facebook's Help Center, please reply to this email.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

User Operations
Facebook

Which ars links to pages I have used previously to attempt to delete my account without success.

Moderator edit: You don't want your e-mail address up for grabs, I removed it from your post.

Last edited by .:B:. (2010-10-14 22:19:11)

Army · 2010-10-14 21:59:43

You could do something like

while true;do mailx $PARAMETERS < text;sleep 10m;done

I don't know how mailx works, so you'll have to figure that out by yourself. Or alternatively you could use mutt, I think I remember that there was an option / were options to send mails via command line.

karol · 2010-10-14 22:10:45

Try

while sleep 10m; do
  mailx -s subject privacy@facebook.com <somefile
done

or use cron :-)
'somefile' should contain the body of the message. The 'mailx' is from mailx-heirloom.

RaisedFist · 2010-10-14 22:11:15

don't bother. after 3-4 mails from you, they'll put you on their blacklist. it's no use. just delete your account from their interface and let the time heal your wounds....

ewaller · 2010-10-14 22:30:47

I don't have a face book account. Can you change your contact email? If so, why not change it to point back at them?

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Howto Automat email message sent every 10 min

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