[Slightly OT] General Email Question

[Mike]

Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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

Call me ghetto (or lazy) but I've always just used atd since its 
pre-installed on all kinds of things and I don't want to worry about my 
internet connection, email client or desktop being ready to do what I 
need it to do. So I just hop on something thats always on and issue 
whatever command I need it to do.

Example:

me at bleh:~$ at 2:00 next week
at> echo "How are you?" | mail -s "OHAI!" somebody at somewhere.com
at> <EOT>
job 6 at Thu Jul 16 02:00:00 2009

(thats ctrl+d which does the "End of Text" <EOT>)

To get one of them fancy emails all the cool kids do you could make 
something nice and:
mail -s "subject" somebody at somewhere.com < /tmp/skateboards.txt

-Mike