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<p dir="auto">On 28 Nov 2013, at 18:06, Joris Hoogeboom wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">As far as I understand the send later feature is done locally, meaning that if the machine is turned off it doesn’t work.</p>
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<p dir="auto">That is correct.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Is there any way to make this more robust? I can’t leave my laptop on all the time worrying there might be some message scheduled.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Since I rarely use the feature myself then I don't have a lot of experience with it, but wouldn't it work (to some extent) with <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5394">Power Nap</a> enabled?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Implementation with a server-side component would be ideal, but I’m not sure how feasible that would be.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I'm pretty sure I read about a server-side solution at some point (maybe only a theoretical one), but I cannot seem to find that right now (my brain tells me it was an SMTP extension, but my brain is never to be trusted).</p>
<p dir="auto">...googling one more time, because I'm stubborn...</p>
<p dir="auto">I found it! Here is an <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4865">SMTP extension</a> named “SMTP Submission Service Extension for Future Message Release”.</p>
<p dir="auto">The bad news is that I do not know or have access to any SMTP servers with support for this extension.</p>
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<p dir="auto">On another note, I have an always turned on mac mini as a server, I could install mailmate there and use screen sharing to send it from there. That would be a hacky workaround, am I overseeing something obvious or is that the way to go?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well, if you do that then you don't really need “Send Later” in MailMate. You need a reminder app to tell you when to send the message.</p>
<p dir="auto">The only thing I can improve is that one instance of MailMate should be able to send a message scheduled by another instance of MailMate, but this is a tricky problem. Naively implemented, it would lead to the message being sent twice if both machines are online...</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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