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Delay-send / "Send later" / Scheduled sending
Issue #572 talks about snoozing (i.e. hiding a received email from the inbox for a certain amount of time), but what I'd like to suggest here is a different feature. The usecase for me is this:
- Marketing emails typically have a context/timing-sensitive aspect, so I'd like to be able to schedule them (especially considering the timezone of the person I'm contacting)
- Some human-centric staff managers and directors know that it is better to schedule mails to staffers to their business hours, avoiding emails that would arrive outside work hours and cause undue stress or cognitive load. Basically, mindfulness for staffers' "right to disconnect".
The corresponding issue in my local mail client (where some technical approaches are mentioned) is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/411#note_874473
Yeah, I outlined an envisioned potential implementation in #641 . Feel free to take a look.
Regarding the proposal of the "local approach" in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/411#note_874473 I do not think it is viable for Cypht. It simply has to be "fire and forget" - i.e. closing the web site (incl. suspending the web browser tab) must not hinder this functionality in any way.
A bit like the "snooze" counterpart, I've requested clarification on JMAP side at https://github.com/jmapio/jmap/issues/373 because it is unclear to me (perhaps because I'm not familiar with such things as protocols and specs and whatnot)
Is this support by IMAP/SMTP?
If not (how) can this be done without a cron job?
Some ideas from Roundcube: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/8110