Schedule Your Email For a Future Date

March 2nd, 2010 Tanmay

Did you know that even Emails can be scheduled? For wishing someone in his birthday you have to stare at the calender, waiting for the date. And if He/She is a special one and you want to wish his/her so early in the respective date then you must be awake until the clock ticks to 12 and then send your email. Not only in the birthdays, there are many purposes for which your email should be sent at proper time. In case you forget that date, things can get messed up. This happens with all of us because the famous email services have not the facility of scheduling an email.

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But you can schedule your email and wish your email in the particular date and time you want. There is a website that allows you to schedule your email.

Schedule your emails by LetterMeLater.com

You can schedule your email from this website. You have to sign-up with the email, from which you want send your message. Next time whenever you want to schedule your email you have to just sign in with your email address then compose your mail and schedule it for future.

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1. Sign up for LetterMeLater. After that an activation link will be send to your email address. Activate your account by clicking on that activation link.

2. After that, click on the “Compose” button to compose your message.

3. Put your recipient’s email address, subject. In the “When to send” field you can put directly the day. date, month, year, time* of scheduling. You can also set those by clicking the buttons at the right hand side.

4. After completing all the task just click on “Schedule to be sent” button.

You message will be sent at the scheduled date and time.

If you don’t want to browse the website every time when you schedule your email then you can schedule the email from your own inbox. Just go to your inbox and follow the steps.

1. Compose your mail.

2. In the address section put the address Me@LetterMeLater.com.

3. Now in top of your message write the recipient’s address, the scheduling time and the other details. The format should be

to: recipient(s)
cc: recipient(s)
bcc: recipient(s)
when: date(s) to send - semicolon delimited for recurring emails
options: any of these options: reminder, hidden, html


Immediately after you send it you will get an email indicating whether your email has scheduled successfully or not. If it was successful then you can see it in your LetterMeLater account.

* Note: Though there is a graphical option to chose the schedule date and time you can put them manually. Some standard form of date and time is

now
next friday 
next year 
2pm 
tomorrow 4:02 am 
4 hours 
45 minutes 
Sunday January 1, 2012 at 6:00 AM 

If you know any other method feel free to share!

Reader Comments

  1. Seems great. Thanks for sharing.

    March 15th, 2010 at 14:08
  2. Tanmay

    @NavaPavan
    Thanks………….Keep coming….

    March 15th, 2010 at 14:17
  3. The site is good. Nice find

    March 19th, 2010 at 20:29