Comments on: Delay email to send at a specific time

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:10:09 +0000

This would be great to send an email to everyone to let them know you have committed suicide after the fact, that way the corpse doesn’t stink up the house or the animals don’t start to feed on you.

By: Cohen

Cohen — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:55:23 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, I’ve had quite a bit of interested for this application but haven’t found any time to build it yet. OAuth would DEFINITELY be the way to do, it’s great to see Gmail, MSN and Yahoo all support it.

By: Ecnassianer

Ecnassianer — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:43:07 +0000

I really really really want your service. But I really really really won’t give you my email password. Don’t bother asking.

What you actually need to do is authenticate my account via the OAuth API:
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff750546.aspx

As an added bonus, when the time to send comes, your application can then log back into my account and send the email from there. Then you’ll benefit from the email coming from the proper source as well.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:13:05 +0000

I love the idea. I’d like to send a holiday message but will not be at my computer over the weekend, so having a service that will send it out that day would be great.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:16:16 +0000

Would use it. Also check out http://sendlaterapp.com/ and http://www.hitmelater.com/

By: henry

henry — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:50:25 +0000

I am a teacher and have weekly online quizzes and am looking for a service like this so that I can mail my students the answers AFTER the quiz is due. I’d like to send the answers to them as soon as they write but delay in them getting the answers till later.

Is this possible?

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:54:46 +0000

Lettermelater.com is a service that does this but they but their site in the headers so anyone who knows about Headers will see the web site and know it’s being used and possibly spoofed.

there is another one but I couldn’t find it, I’m looking for it now

By: Emus

Emus — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:11:11 +0000

My previous post doesn’t seem to have appeared so here goes again. Yes I like the idea a lot however there is an existing service along the lines of method one – it’s a free reliable service that provides a web form which you can use to send email at a delayed date/time from your existing email address(es). It even supports timezones and it seems pretty reliable.

Have a look at the competition: http://www.schedulemail.net

By: Emu

Emu — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:02:35 +0000

Oh and I find I use this everynow and then. It’s handy when I want to write a nice happy birthday message when I have the time – not on the morning of their birthday! It’s also good if yo uwant to ask someone about a certain event/project etc that you know will happen at a certain time. Maybe yo just won’t have time to write later or maybe you have certain questinos in your mind now yo udon’t want to forget…

By: Cohen

Cohen — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:40:19 +0000

Fair point.. the reason I thought about it was that I needed to send some emails out but it was late on a Saturday evening and I didn’t want it to look like I was catching up over the weekend.

Other reasons could be as reminders, either for others or personal, and for sending out newsletters or other timely emails (although there are other services better suited to this).

And the only other reason I could think of, is to delay the email so that you don’t have to deal with their reply too quickly. That way you can manage workflow a little better. However, again, maybe there are better ways to deal with that.

It looks like there are a few plugins for various clients that already do the same job. However you need your email client open for the email to actually send, which is where this service would trump the competition.