On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 14:53 +0100, Andrea Vai wrote: > > > AFAIK snoozing is generally a server-side function. > > +1 Both server-side and non-standard [as in there is not standard > > deferring method AFAIK]. > As I would find the idea interesting, but understand that it's > someway not recommendable, I would greatly appreciate any further > explanation on the matter, if anyone could give some.
Anything scheduled is, or should be, something which is performed by the server as the server is the only thing which is always there, always on, always connected. A client gets closed, powered off, loses connection, etc... therefore client side scheduling is a dodgy business and eventually results in a confused, frustrated, or angry user who blames the application [for what is straight forwardly a bad idea in the first place]. As it is a [best] server side function the client would need someway of telling the SMTP server to delay delivery. No such mechanism exists. Additionally, to be useful, the client would need a mechanism to enumerated scheduled messages and to cancel a scheduled message. No such mechanism exists. These mechanisms would have to be either added to the SMTP protocol [very unlikely] or shoe-horned into IMAP and thus be entirely implementation, if not site, specific. A highly implementation or site specific feature is not worth the effort of building into a 'generic' mail client. Open Source SMTP servers like Postfix have a Hold queue but there is no way for end-users to interact with that queue as you then have to deal with all the ensuing AAA issues (Authentication Authorization Accounting). Aside: A way does exist to do this, manually. Compose the message and save-to-draft, don't send. Then one can go the Drafts folder, open the message, and send it at any given time. I personally use the Drafts feature frequently. -- Adam Tauno Williams, awill...@whitemice.org Multi-Modal Activists Against Auto Dependent Development resisting the unAmerican socialists of the Motorist hegemony http://www.mmaaadd.org _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list