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From: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)
Subject: Re: Notification of upcoming deadlines via email
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Gary <emacs@garydjones.name> writes:

> What I would like to do is have emacs send me an email when a deadline
> is approaching. Is that possible? I am *much* more likely to read an
> email than remember to look at the calendar or whatever, and moreover
> it sits in my mailbox until I really take some action to deal with it,
> even if it is only to delete it.

You can check out this article
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5271 for having reminders
show up as pop-ups.  Replace the “call-process” bit with your own shell
program or lisp fragment. 

HTH,

Mark.