[MlMt] send later

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 28 Nov 2013, at 18:06, Joris Hoogeboom wrote:

> As far as I understand the send later feature is done locally, meaning 
> that if the machine is turned off it doesn’t work.

That is correct.

> 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.

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 [Power 
Nap](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5394) enabled?

> Implementation with a server-side component would be ideal, but I’m 
> not sure how feasible that would be.

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).

...googling one more time, because I'm stubborn...

I found it! Here is an [SMTP 
extension](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4865) named “SMTP Submission 
Service Extension for Future Message Release”.

The bad news is that I do not know or have access to any SMTP servers 
with support for this extension.

> 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?

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.

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...

-- 
Benny
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