# Sending Emails on specific dates
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-on-specific-dates/78744
**Category:** General
**Created:** [27 May 2023 22:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-on-specific-dates/78744 "2023-05-27T22:10:57Z")
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### Author:  [@snowmansmartie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/snowmansmartie)
#### Post date: [27 May 2023 22:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-on-specific-dates/78744/1 "2023-05-27T22:10:57Z")
Hi guys,
I'm very new to Node-Red and using it within Home Assistant. I am wanting to setup an automated Email that gets sent on a specific calculated day every month. I will try and break this down the best I can:
Email needs to get sent 10 working days before the same day a month later
Email cannot be sent on a weekend or a public UK holiday
So for example if the last Email sent was on the 20/04/2023, the next Email would need to be sent on the 5/05/2023. This is because the 20/05 is a Saturday, so 10 working days (Mon to Fri) would be the 8th, but the 8th is a Bank Holiday so cant be sent then either, so would then need to be sent on the Friday prior being the 5th.
I realise that Easter is a problem due its flexiable date.
I look forward to peoples responses to this.
Thanks
James
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [28 May 2023 02:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-on-specific-dates/78744/2 "2023-05-28T02:06:26Z")
Hi James, welcome to the forum.
It looks like you will be needing some date based arithhmetic - add a calendar month, subtract 9 days.
node-red-contrib-moment might be useful for this.
Then keep subtracting a day until your proposed email date is not a saturday, sunday or bank holiday.
You can obtain a list of past and future bank holidays at [https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json](https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json).
Retrieve it with an HTTP request node set to return a JSON object.
It has sections "england-and-wales", "scotland" and "northern-ireland".
You say you want to exclude UK holidays so I guess you will need to compare your proposed email date with all three sections.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [27 July 2023 02:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sending-emails-on-specific-dates/78744/3 "2023-07-27T02:07:08Z")
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