Delaying sending of emails

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saturnin02

Hi,
I have a batch of emails that I need to send but I do not want to send
them before a specific date.
Usually, I would use the feature under Options "do not deliver before:
(specified date)".
However, since this is for MANY emails and there is uncertainty as to the
actual send date desired AND there are variations of text in the group, I
need to be able to prepare the emails individually and change the delivery
date for all such emails if the need arises.
Of course, if I manually use that feature described above, I then ALSO would
have to MANUALLY alter that deliver date for all emails--a very tedious
process indeed.
Is there a way that I can perhaps "park" those email either using a
category or other feature that would allow me to change the delivery date
for ALL emails in one shot/command only?
I also have to deal with the fact that those emails have to go out of one
specific email account (which I use fairly intensively thus cannot afford
not to use it for many days to park the emails there.)
I cannot realistically use (I think) email merger for this project as there
are too many variations.
Any suggestions that would be of help?
Tx a lot.
S
 
Hi,
Thanks a lot for oyur reply. I really appreciate it.
So let me get this straight....
If I have all messages in the OUTBOX for example--if I select it, then run
the macro, it should set the delivery time to whatever I define below as the
desired time.
Correct?
Hope this works......
S

KePaHa said:
You should be able to create a macro that cycles through all messages in a
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given folder and sets the DeferredDeliveryTime property on the MailItems to
a give date/time. Here is a sample that may work. It requires all the
messages to be in one folder, and to select that folder before running the
macro:
 
Works great!! U'r saving my life here....
Just 1 question--And I KNOW I am pushing my luck--is there a way to have a
box appear so that the Macro asks me to input a date when I run it--instead
of hard coding the date in the macro script itself?
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KePaHa said:
You should be able to create a macro that cycles through all messages in a
Click to expand...
given folder and sets the DeferredDeliveryTime property on the MailItems to
a give date/time. Here is a sample that may work. It requires all the
messages to be in one folder, and to select that folder before running the
macro:
 
Yes but they really have to go into the OUTBOX eventually otherwise they'll
never actually "send", correct?
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KePaHa said:
Right. I would strongly recommend trying it out first on a Drafts folder
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with a handful of test messages in it.
 
Hi,
I haven't been able to try this last one out as I am getting the folowing
eror message:
"The macros in his project are disabled. Please refer to the online help or
documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."
I searched for that in "help" but to no avail....?
How do I enable macros in OL 2002 WIN XP HE?
Tx,
S
 
OK, I am not that stupid.
I have figured out the disabled/enabled issue by changing security settings
to Medium.
OK--LAST ISSUE which is crucial is that when I do apply the macro (first
one) it seems to change the delivery date but it looks like I still have to
open the email and resend it (that is click the "Send" button) for it to
work.
Otherwise, they are just parked in the outbox.
Do you know what I mean?
Tx a million, again....
S
 
OK. Let me try that. I think it will work.
I'll repost soon.
Tx for your help and suggestions--it really will save me a huge amount of
time....
S
 
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