Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

Not as far as I know.

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

Yes.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

Not as far as I know.

Thanks Tamb, bugger!

roughbarked said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

Yes.

Thanks roughy, where can I find this info please?

You may be able to, but I’d test it first. You cannot do it with browser based emails, but maybe with an email client such as Outlook.

Firstly, if you want to send it in 5 hours time, set your “check for new messages every “???” minutes to match what time you want to send it. Next, turn off “send messages immediately”.

This is sort of a fiddle, but may achieve what you want. But test it first, by sending and email to yourself. You will not be able to send/recieve emails in the meantime if you do it this way.

I’m not aware of any method to send a specific email at a specific time using ordinary household email systems..

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

Not as far as I know.

It may depend on what type of mail ie: webmail or from your computer. I know that Eudora always had a send later option and the option of send when checking .. all that sort of stuff. I could set my mail to chack at particular intervals and not send the mail until I checke dthe mail at the very least.

Thanks Woodie

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

Not as far as I know.

It may depend on what type of mail ie: webmail or from your computer. I know that Eudora always had a send later option and the option of send when checking .. all that sort of stuff. I could set my mail to chack at particular intervals and not send the mail until I checke dthe mail at the very least.

Thanks Roughy.

bob(from black rock) said:

Thanks Woodie

I’m not aware of any method that will have a setting of, say, “send this email at 3pm”.

If it’s now 1pm, set your check for mail every ??? minutes to 120 = 3pm. (in two hours time). Turn off “send immediately”. See what happens.

However if you want to check for emails before then, (using manual ‘send/recieve”) it will probably send you “timed” email.

bob(from black rock) said:

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

Not as far as I know.

It may depend on what type of mail ie: webmail or from your computer. I know that Eudora always had a send later option and the option of send when checking .. all that sort of stuff. I could set my mail to chack at particular intervals and not send the mail until I checke dthe mail at the very least.

Thanks folks, bye, back later.

Thanks Roughy.

Woodie said:

I’m not aware of any method that will have a setting of, say, “send this email at 3pm”.

A place I worked at in the late 1980s used a system that allowed you to specify a time at which to send emails. (Anyone use or remember ALL-IN-1?    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1)

When I arrived there, a story doing the rounds concerned an employee who was about to resign and had written a number of emails set to go out after he’d left, telling his colleagues what he really thought of them.

However, as you’d expect, Murphy intervened. There was a power glitch … the system re-set .. and all the emails went out early.

AussieDJ said:

Woodie said:

I’m not aware of any method that will have a setting of, say, “send this email at 3pm”.

A place I worked at in the late 1980s used a system that allowed you to specify a time at which to send emails. (Anyone use or remember ALL-IN-1?    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1)

When I arrived there, a story doing the rounds concerned an employee who was about to resign and had written a number of emails set to go out after he’d left, telling his colleagues what he really thought of them.

However, as you’d expect, Murphy intervened. There was a power glitch … the system re-set .. and all the emails went out early.

I don’t remember ALL-IN-1 but I do remember Lotus Symphony.

MS Outlook has VBA, so you can do pretty well anything with E-mails.

Anything that can be done on a computer anyway.

The Rev Dodgson said:

MS Outlook has VBA, so you can do pretty well anything with E-mails.

Anything that can be done on a computer anyway.

Rev. I have Outlook Express. Does it have VBA?

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

MS Outlook has VBA, so you can do pretty well anything with E-mails.

Anything that can be done on a computer anyway.

Rev. I have Outlook Express. Does it have VBA?

I don’t know; quite likely not.

I’ve never actually used VBA with Outlook, I just know it’s there.

Someone who does use it:
http://www.codeforexcelandoutlook.com/blog/

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

MS Outlook has VBA, so you can do pretty well anything with E-mails.

Anything that can be done on a computer anyway.

Rev. I have Outlook Express. Does it have VBA?

I don’t know; quite likely not.

I’ve never actually used VBA with Outlook, I just know it’s there.

Someone who does use it:
http://www.codeforexcelandoutlook.com/blog/

It looks like VBA is on my computer but I’ve never extracted it.

I’m pretty sure that Outlook and Outlook Express are different, and there’s a lot you can do in Outlook that you can’t do in Outlook Express.

AussieDJ said:

I’m pretty sure that Outlook and Outlook Express are different, and there’s a lot you can do in Outlook that you can’t do in Outlook Express.

I use Express for convenience but also have Outlook as, I suspect, do all MS Office machines.

From:
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/116730-visual-basic-applications-outlook-express.html
it looks like you can access Outlook Express from Office VBA, but it probably won’t be easy.

There is a link to an article by Ron de Bruin in the discussion above that would be worth looking at if you have some time.

I’m afraid I won’t be able to spend any time on it at the moment.

There may well be a non-VBA way to do what you want as well. I just don’t know Outlook very well.

I think you can run something like a vbscript as a scheduled task in windows and send an email using that…

bob(from black rock) said:

Is it possible to draft an email, and have it posted at a later predetermined time and or date?

yes if using outlook

Thank you Poik et al.