On 28 Nov 2013, at 18:06, Joris Hoogeboom wrote:
As far as I understand the send later feature is done locally, meaning
that if the machine is turned off it doesn’t work.
That is correct.
Is there any way to make this more robust? I can’t leave my laptop
on all the time worrying there might be some message scheduled.
Since I rarely use the feature myself then I don't have a lot of
experience with it, but wouldn't it work (to some extent) with [Power
Nap](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5394) enabled?
Implementation with a server-side component would be ideal, but I’m
not sure how feasible that would be.
I'm pretty sure I read about a server-side solution at some point (maybe
only a theoretical one), but I cannot seem to find that right now (my
brain tells me it was an SMTP extension, but my brain is never to be
trusted).
...googling one more time, because I'm stubborn...
I found it! Here is an [SMTP
extension](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4865) named “SMTP Submission
Service Extension for Future Message Release”.
The bad news is that I do not know or have access to any SMTP servers
with support for this extension.
On another note, I have an always turned on mac mini as a server, I
could install mailmate there and use screen sharing to send it from
there. That would be a hacky workaround, am I overseeing something
obvious or is that the way to go?
Well, if you do that then you don't really need “Send Later” in
MailMate. You need a reminder app to tell you when to send the message.
The only thing I can improve is that one instance of MailMate should be
able to send a message scheduled by another instance of MailMate, but
this is a tricky problem. Naively implemented, it would lead to the
message being sent twice if both machines are online...
--
Benny
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