On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Bob Elzer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You send me a message while I was away, when I get back and 
start going through my emails, I read and reply to yours.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Then as I get to the end of my email, I get the same email 
from you again.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Sending me the second email isn&#39;t going to get you a faster 
response, and maybe no response if you keep doing it.</font></span></div>

<div dir="ltr" align="left"> </div></div></blockquote><div>I agree with Bob 100% in theory, but my experience has been different. When some people, not all, get back from vacation, they do a quick search of their inbox for stuff from their boss or other VIPs, and then ignore the rest as a matter of survival when confronted with hundreds of emails from the past. They don&#39;t always take the extra time to go back through the old stuff and separate the wheat from the chaff - they have another 50 emails just for today. Again, this is not everyone. </div>
<div> </div><div>With that said, that is just one use case example. Another one from the gmail help discussion on this topic - &quot;sending email at 3 AM may not be seen as professional, so I would like to compose the email and then schedule sending it at 7 AM that morning.&quot; This feature had some traction on the gmail help discussion/feature enhancement requests.</div>
<div> </div><div>My current solution is to create a calendar event for a certain time/date to remind me to send the email. It seems that computers are very good at remembering and executing simple tasks like this in the future, hence my question.</div>
<div> </div><div>Mark</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> 
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us" target="_blank">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark 
Phillips<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> Phoenix 
Linux Users<br><b>Subject:</b> [Slightly OT] General Email 
Question<br></font><br></div><div><div class="h5">

<div>Do any OS email clients have the ability to schedule the sending of an 
email? For example, I send an email to someone and get an out of office 
response. I would like to schedule resending my email when the person is back in 
the office, particularly when he/she will be out of the office for several days 
or weeks.<br></div>
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<div>i checked with the gmail web interface, and it does not have this feature 
according to the help pages. Anyone know how to do it in gmail?</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div>Mark</div></div></div></div>
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