GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 556841
Feature Request: Scheduled Message Sending
Last modified: 2010-11-16 08:21:40 UTC
It would be a very useful feature to be able to schedule a new message to be sent at a particular date and time and/or using a timer delay. The message would sit in the user's Outbox, but not be sent to the SMTP server until the scheduled time. This feature would be useful for sending oneself simple reminders, allowing telecommuters and other out-of-hours staff to "space apart" messages to other workers instead of having a series of five or six appear in a row in their inbox, and would bring Evolution up to par with a similar feature provided by Outlook.
How should this work if you quit Evolution?
(In reply to comment #1) > How should this work if you quit Evolution? That's a fair question. I think it would work roughly the same way it does now: If you are currently in "offline" mode and you quit, Evolution just exits. If you have at least one unsent "normal" message you get the current "You have unsent messages, do you wish to quit anyway? If you quit, these messages will not be sent until Evolution is started again. [Cancel/Quit]" If you have no unsent "normal" message but one or more unsent "scheduled" messages the exit window message perhaps changes to "You have unsent messages scheduled to be sent, do you wish to quit anyway? If you quit, these messages will not be sent as scheduled until Evolution is started again. [Cancel/Quit]" I believe there does exist special functionality when you are using Exchange as your mail server in which you can pass the message from your mail client to Exchange and Exchange will respect the desired schedule, but I don't know of any other SMTP servers which support this extension, and don't believe it is necessary to do anything besides warning the user with a simple message.
This would indeed be a very useful feature. Has any progress been made?
No progress, otherwise it would be mentioned here.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 236121 ***