[MlMt] Cancel or Delete Send fails

[John D. Muccigrosso]

On 25 Jul 2016, at 13:39, Ralph Alvy wrote:

> This wouldn’t handle this situation, where I don’t realize the 
> connection is slow until I see the long period the mail is sitting in 
> Drafts during the Send process.
>
> On 25 Jul 2016, at 6:28, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:
>
>> On 24 Jul 2016, at 12:09, Ralph Alvy wrote:
>>
>
>>> Here’s where it becomes an issue. I’m in a location where SMTP 
>>> is too slow for the attachment I want to email, but I didn’t 
>>> realize it. Too late. I just hit Send. I’d like to be able stop it 
>>> when I see it taking forever in Drafts, and just send them a Dropbox 
>>> link instead.
>
>>
>> A possible solution to such problems is having a default delay on 
>> sending. (Some other app does this, I think, but I forget which). So 
>> your messages would go out after X seconds, instead of right away. 
>> Then you could cancel the send within that time period.
>>
>> Note that this is different from a scheduled send (which would also 
>> be nice).

Ah, you said “I just hit send” which made me think it was a matter 
of a few seconds. Even so, the delay could be 5 minutes.

John