How to trigger alert mail from SharePoint Document Library

Question

I want to store few documents in document library and after upload the document I want to give expire data for each document. Now here I want some alert mail from SharePoint before the particular document will expire.

Please advice.

Answer 1

You can create custom timer job to monitor expire dates in document library and send alert email to customers.

Guide to writing timer jobs in SharepPoint:

https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/a-complete-guide-to-writing-timer-jobs-in-sharepoint-2010/

MSDN tutorial "How to: Create a Web Application-Scoped Timer Job":

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798313.aspx