[MlMt] Sending delay... (~humor, not a MM issue)

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 25 Feb 2018, at 12:08, Randall Gellens wrote:

> Two question about the Send-Later feature:
>
> - Does it support the Message Submission FUTURERELEASE extension (RFC 
> 4865) if the message is being sent via a server that supports it?

No, I think I looked into it a long time ago, but I don't think I found 
any servers supporting it -- or at least very few as you also state. I 
decided my time was better spent on something that would work with any 
SMTP server :)

> - I haven’t played with it much, but I did set a message to be sent 
> at a specific time “tomorrow” which was accepted, but when I 
> happened to check a few hours past that time, with MailMate running 
> and connected, it still showed as “tomorrow” even though it was 
> now what was “tomorrow” when I set it.  I simply sent the message 
> immediately, instead of playing with it to see if “tomorrow” would 
> never resolve to “today” but was forever in the future.

The relative “tomorrow” value is not very specific and might not be 
handled very well by MailMate. In any case, if you look in the Drafts 
mailbox then the pending column should show you a value which is likely 
to be stated as “hours”. Re-editing (Cancel Send and Edit) re-uses 
the original string and therefore this would make it “tomorrow” 
again.

The “Send Later” feature is in the category of being far from 
perfect, but “good enough” for many purposes.

Perhaps little known fact: If you enter an “illegal” value in the 
Send Later field and then try to send anyways then a date/clock 
interface is shown allowing you to set a date using the mouse.

-- 
Benny