This comes up once in a while… I’d like an extension for Thunderbird that would allow me to hit “Send Later” and specify and date and time for the email to be sent out. This would allow me to compose emails destined for European clients on, say, Friday afternoon Pacific Time, and have them delivered mid-morning on Monday, GMT. If I send them out real-time, my time, they tend to get buried in the weekend pileup.

Aha… as usual, it looks like someone has tried to implement this: SendTools extension for Thunderbird. I’ll have to see how it works!

Update: it does work. Some other users have complained about the fact that it creates local folders to do its job, but I don’t see this as a problem. Thanks to AusDilecce for this.

Update: Last night I did have the problem that some others have reported with the extension getting hung up and sending multiple copies of a (huge) email. Ugh. I also don’t like how SendTools introduces a slight delay even when sending normally. It makes me doubt the reliability of sending email - not good. I think I’ll uninstall for now and see if the code improves.

Side note: A Google search didn’t really turn up good results for this, so I had to search within the Thunderbird forums — an example of how much of the ‘net isn’t yet indexed by search engines. Despite how massive Google seems, there’s another 90-95% out there.