Well this isn't automated, but in outlook, you have the
option: Do NOT deliver before date/time. But you fill these in
when composing the email.
Not sure which client you are
using.
I agree with you too, there are always exceptions.
Thank god we don't have FLASHING subject lines, but for some people it is
needed.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Then as I
get to the end of my email, I get the same email from you
again.
Sending me
the second email isn't going to get you a faster response, and maybe no
response if you keep doing it.
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'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.
With that said, that is just one use case example. Another one from the
gmail help discussion on this topic - "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." This feature had some traction on the gmail help
discussion/feature enhancement requests.
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.
Mark
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.
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?
Thanks!
Mark
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