Can I write an e-mail, but send it out 2 days later?
I need to delay sending an e-mail for a day, is that possible?
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016), iOS 10.2.1
I need to delay sending an e-mail for a day, is that possible?
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016), iOS 10.2.1
You can do this, courtesy of Automator. If you plan on doing this and your mac is to be unattended by the time the message is to be sent, read the note below about GateKeeper.
1) Create a new "Calendar Alarm":
In this, add two actions: "New Mail Message" and "Send Outgoing Messages". Fill in the details.
Then go to your Calendar and adjust the date and time.
NOTE *** GateKeeper ***
The first time this workflow is run, GateKeeper will kick in and ask you if you want to run this application (because that is what it is, and that is how GateKeeper works).
If your mac is unattended, and this happens, the workflow will not run and the message, of course, will not be sent.
To avoid this, do the following: use this technique to send a message to yourself, and schedule it for, say a minute from now. GateKeeper will do its thing. Allow the application to run. Then go back to Automator, fill in the desired message details, and reschedule the Calendar event to two days from now. It will then run and GateKeeper will not interfere, since the application has been run before.
You can do this, courtesy of Automator. If you plan on doing this and your mac is to be unattended by the time the message is to be sent, read the note below about GateKeeper.
1) Create a new "Calendar Alarm":
In this, add two actions: "New Mail Message" and "Send Outgoing Messages". Fill in the details.
Then go to your Calendar and adjust the date and time.
NOTE *** GateKeeper ***
The first time this workflow is run, GateKeeper will kick in and ask you if you want to run this application (because that is what it is, and that is how GateKeeper works).
If your mac is unattended, and this happens, the workflow will not run and the message, of course, will not be sent.
To avoid this, do the following: use this technique to send a message to yourself, and schedule it for, say a minute from now. GateKeeper will do its thing. Allow the application to run. Then go back to Automator, fill in the desired message details, and reschedule the Calendar event to two days from now. It will then run and GateKeeper will not interfere, since the application has been run before.
There is a possibility that one may be able to use another email client
and write an Apple Script to automate a time delay send later function.
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I'd last read about this in a topic where someone wrote a script to use
with an email client Eudora (2005) or the current Apple mail application.
{So the following example was likely used with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.x}
"delay sent" for Apple's Mail application...
A product by name SendLater for mac, was inexpensive for flat $12.
but later morphed into a monthly subscription; now it appears to be
https://www.mailbutler.io/ re-named 'mailbutler' ~ & costs a lot more.
There may be some scripts already written by someone, or you may be
able to experiment with partial pre-made samples, to see what you get.
The Automator in Mac OS X can be used toward that end; mentioned
in the Make Use Of article linked above. Sample scripts used to be in
the support folder in previous Mac OS X for Automator experimenting.
An example of someone's attempt of writing script looks rather daunting:
Apple Mail Automation - a discussion from seven years ago in ASC.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=delay+apple+mail+via+automator&t=ffsb&ia=web
And retail software available from third-party makers that can send an
email at pre-programmed or set time intervals, can cost a bit of money.
Of the paid ones, some of them are subscriptions; free ones went away.
So you could carefully look into pre-made applications and note where
the downloads are hosted from; because some of them may add bad
additions to software that could contain malware, adware, etc to avoid.
15 Automator and AppleScripts You Can't Live Without | TechRadar
Or see what you could make of Automator. ~ Used to be gmail had fair
add-on to 'send later'. Haven't looked lately to see what google's up to.
In any event...
Good luck & happy trails! 🙂
All the other suggestions listed are valid ones but you might want to look first at this one -
https://www.mailbutler.io/en/#SendLater
This is a plugin for Apple Mail which adds the ability to send at a later date to Mail itself. This obviously makes it a more elegant approach.
The main drawback apart from having to pay for it, is that each time Apple issue a new version of their software this typically breaks compatibility with existing versions of such plugins. Whilst they will likely issue a new version of the plugin in-between you might have a gap and obviously some hassle.
That was among first items found when looking into this
and stated above the need to subscribe to use it..
"A product by name SendLater for mac, was inexpensive for flat $12.
But later morphed into a monthly subscription; now appears to be
https://www.mailbutler.io/ re-named 'mailbutler' ~ & costs a lot more."
So the choices still remain between using some existing software to
facilitate this action, or pay to do something similar. Automator and
Apple Scripts look 'least costly' over a decade-worth of monthly fees.
Good luck & happy trails! 🙂
You can write your email then save it as a draft to be sent at a later date.
Can I write an e-mail, but send it out 2 days later?