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.




June 14th, 2006 at 2:27 am
hi,
did you find anything well working regarding scheduled sending emails with thunderbird?
if yes it would be very nice if you could tell me where to find this solution
thx & cu
jnes
October 13th, 2006 at 8:26 am
I to have been looking for the same functionality but likewise have found nothing. If anyone has anythng get it out there as I am sure there is a demand for it.
November 14th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Now that Eudora’s going open source and partnering up with Thunderbird, maybe that feature of theirs will creep into future Thunderbird releases…
April 14th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
After spending a frustrating amount of time waiting for this I wrote one myself. You can find it at http://www.unsignedbyte.com/sl8tr.html