all the email applications whether desktop or web based should have
schedule feature, which should allows uses to set email timings
according to their own wish, ie schedule emails to be sent after a
specified time or set time, like if today is thursday oct 11, 2007. it
should allows me to send email that i specify right now at 11pm oct
13, 2007 to single or multiple recepionts.
makhan10
>all the email applications whether desktop or web based should have
>schedule feature, which should allows uses to set email timings
>according to their own wish, ie schedule emails to be sent after a
>specified time or set time, like if today is thursday oct 11, 2007. it
>should allows me to send email that i specify right now at 11pm oct
>13, 2007 to single or multiple recepionts.
What exactly is the point of that? Scheduling in a program such as
Outlook might be useful if you have a slow modem connection and want
to wait until you get into a cheap rate period, but that doesn't apply
if you are sending via a web-based application such as Hotmail. So
waht difference does it make to you what time Hotmail chooses to send
the mail it has queued up? The only reasons I can think of why someone
would want to do that would be to deceive people about who sent it. I
can't think of a legitimate reason why someone would beed to defer
sending. Please feel free to enlighten me.
well i can schedule emails to be sent on birthdays or religous
holidays ahead of time, but it be sent on day specified by me.
makhan10 wrote:
> well i can schedule emails to be sent on birthdays or religous
> holidays ahead of time, but it be sent on day specified by me.
That's what real operating systems like Linux are for. It's
trivial to script that sort of thing up.
-- David.
makhan10
>well i can schedule emails to be sent on birthdays or religous
>holidays ahead of time, but it be sent on day specified by me.
That's the sort of reasoning that Microsoft et al use when they
compile a list of all the new features they want to include in
software to make it "bigger and better" than the previous release,
i.e. it is a bit of functionality which might be used by 1% of the
userbase, perhaps once a year, and not a core function, and the amount
of bloat it adds to applications is out of all proportion to the
benefits, and probably introduces more bugs and security holes, more
opportunities for abuse, etc. It certainly isn't a core requirement of
email and certainly isn't justification for your opening statement
"all email applications should have a scheduling feature".
I would personally find this feature very useful. It would be nice to
send out e-mails at specific times as reminders for events or sending
birthday wishes. I would also email myself alot because I check my
email more than my calendar!
Samperet
>I would personally find this feature very useful. It would be nice to
>send out e-mails at specific times as reminders for events or sending
>birthday wishes. I would also email myself alot because I check my
>email more than my calendar!
I'm sure there are already online services that do this and some email
clients may offer it as a feature. e.g. if you use Outlook Calendar it
will mail out reminders of appointments automatically. However, I
still stand by what I said that it is not a core feature of EMAIL and
disagree with the original poster's comment that "all the email
applications whether desktop or web based should have
schedule feature".
Samperet wrote:
> I would personally find this feature very useful. It would be nice to
> send out e-mails at specific times as reminders for events or sending
> birthday wishes.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind
(You are running Linux/UNIX/FreeBSD, right?)
--
David.
On Oct 17, 5:49 am, Landmark
> Samperet
> >I would personally find this feature very useful. It would be nice to
> >send out e-mails at specific times as reminders for events or sending
> >birthday wishes. I would also email myself alot because I check my
> >email more than my calendar!
>
> I'm sure there are already online services that do this and some email
> clients may offer it as a feature. e.g. if you use Outlook Calendar it
> will mail out reminders of appointments automatically. However, I
> still stand by what I said that it is not a core feature of EMAIL and
> disagree with the original poster's comment that "all the email
> applications whether desktop or web based should have
> ".
I, too, strongly agree that this would be a VERY useful feature. It
can be creatively used, easily, to allow for excellent personal
organization. As email transforms this will become a core feature.
Why not integrate in now?
Andy Dykens
> On Oct 17, 5:49 am, Landmark
> > Samperet
> > >I would personally find this feature very useful. It would be nice to
> > >send out e-mails at specific times as reminders for events or sending
> > >birthday wishes. I would also email myself alot because I check my
> > >email more than my calendar!
> >
> > I'm sure there are already online services that do this and some email
> > clients may offer it as a feature. e.g. if you use Outlook Calendar it
> > will mail out reminders of appointments automatically. However, I
> > still stand by what I said that it is not a core feature of EMAIL and
> > disagree with the original poster's comment that "all the email
> > applications whether desktop or web based should have
> > ".
>
> I, too, strongly agree that this would be a VERY useful feature. It
> can be creatively used, easily, to allow for excellent personal
> organization.
As David mentioned (twice), on UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD (and OS X, and ...)
this is a no-brainer.
But 'even' on (MS-)Windows this is possible without much effort. See
the Scheduled Tasks (or whatever it's called on your Windows version)
facility and - even quicker and more powerful - the AT ("at") command.
> As email transforms this will become a core feature.
> Why not integrate in now?
"As email transforms"? For many people in this audience email exists
as long as four *decades*. Not much *real* "transformation" after all
that time, trust me.
Anyway, no point in trying to convince 'us', i.e. this audience. Try
to convince *Microsoft*. After all, isn't it *their* software which all
of 'you' are using?
Andy Dykens
>I, too, strongly agree that this would be a VERY useful feature. It
>can be creatively used, easily, to allow for excellent personal
>organization. As email transforms this will become a core feature.
>Why not integrate in now?
If someone is convinced of your argument and thinks it isn't already
covered by Outlook etc then they are welcome to build an application
to do it. Who knows, it might be the next kilelr app and make them a
gazillion dollars. If people like the feature they can vote for it
with their feet and wallets. But that is quite different from saying
that ALL email applications should have it and making it some sort of
obligatory standard.