Sending scheduled e-mails from a website

[judas]

I've built a workshop booking system for a client in ASP with all kinds of automated e-mail scripts, but the one thing I can't figure out how to do is get it to send reminder e-mails one day before a workshop. At the moment the system is wholly reactive to user input, ie user submits form, which triggers various bits & pieces of script, but obviously this won't be able to sit their watching the clock and trigger an e-mail by itself.

I have this vague idea of setting up a scheduled task to call a webpage on the server, which will trigger the scripts, but that seems an awfully clunky way of doing it.

Any suggestions? I have a copy of VB.NET to play with, but I'm not a 'real' programmer - only a self-taught web script monkey, so instructions of less than one sylable would be required

[PetrolTed]

Either set up some code that gets called when people just browse your site, or the better solution is to knock something together in VBscript and then schedule that via the Windows scheduler.

[judas]

Thanks Ted!

Dumb question though: do you mean a standalone .vbs file?