# Better Anniversary handling in Campaigns

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/better-anniversary-handling-in-campaigns/34610>\
**Category:** Ideas and Feature Requests\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/better-anniversary-handling-in-campaigns/34610 "2025-01-03T11:24:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/better-anniversary-handling-in-campaigns/34610/2 "2025-01-03T11:26:57Z")

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The current method I reference is outlined here pretty much:

> [@Big Birthday Email Problem](https://forum.mautic.org/t/big-birthday-email-problem/22656/2):
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> @media31 It looks like you used this video as a guide. [[OSTips - How To Create A Happy Birthday Email Campaign In Mautic] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lms6z8Frm5c) Perhaps what you should do is test with a smaller segment, as this is done at the beginning part of this video. You should also execute this with the CLI command so you can see the results, as this would technically be cron triggered, and run silently in the background. M

It really is a bit of a “stretch” and feels like the system is being manipulated into something it wasn’t intended to do.

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