Scheduling sending email

[Jon T]

I am using Vista Ultra 64 and Windows Mail.

There are times that I create an email, but I want it to be delivered at a
later date. Sort of scheduling the "send" of the email. Where I would like
it to perhaps sit in my Outbox and be sent out at a time that I enter.

I also would want the email to have the sent time of when the email actually
gets sent out of my Windows Mail and to my email server.

I have looked through the settings that I can use with my mail and have not
seen anything that would say something like "send at -------".

Is there a way that I can have my email set to be scheduled to be sent at a
time that I select. ??

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Dave]

No can do with WM or WLM...
You'd need a program with more features, like Outlook.

 

[Jon T]

I will give that a try.
Thanks SO MUCH for letting me be aware of the Task Scheduler. That looks
like a valuable tool to handle several functions offline as well as program
in tasks that I would repeat at given intervals. !!

I also remembered that I use a GREAT "donationware" product called
"Keybreeze" http://www.keybreeze.com/
Since it is always faster to move around Windows with keeping ones hands on
the keyboard, Keybreeze allows me to creat
whatever shortcut command I want for ever function on the PC, Web Browsing,
etc.
There also is a Macro creation part of it that I might use. I forgot about
that.

I have used Outlook 2000 for many years and I still do have it. Since I
started to use Windows Mail I didn't see the reason to
re-install Outlook 2000. I would never, ever upgrade MS Office or Outlook.
However, I might consider using a open source
email type of client.
I also haven't reinstalled my Office 2000, as I am using Openoffice.org and
so far it works fine for me.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Don't install Outlook 2000 or Office 2000 since it causes big problems
for Vista's Windows Contacts.

 

[Jon T]

Gary,

Thank you, thank you for the warning about Outlook 2000 and Vista. Also I am
using Vista Utra 64 SP1.

Can I ask you if I install Outlook 2000 and remove or disable Windows Mail,
would I still get problems ??

I have another issue because I have been a Palm PDA users "forever" and
while I never would synch my email, I would have my contacts
calendar, tasks and selected mail folders synched.
The software I use on for this "Beyond Contacts" from Data Viz
http://www.dataviz.com/products/beyondcontacts/index.html
syncs only with Outlook. So I was possibly thinking about re-installing
Outlook 2000.

Understand Gary that I am not one to "bitch and moan" about changes that get
affected as software products move on and
how things might work differently. I find that I have to just be a little
more creative. . As an IT guy myself I understand that to keep
budgets for allowing software that is several years old working, as well as
the support costs with newly developed software can
be difficult and create some unpopular decisions. Then again, it sometimes
opens up some opportunities for some developers and small
software companies to create software that will allow some software, that
work fine, to keep working with newer software/hardware environments.
However, to me the word "emulator", as far as software goes is a four letter
word. .

One of the items I am challenged with anyway is how the Palm hotsync program
will not function on a 64bit OS. So, I am first working on a
workaround with using Bluetooth that some have found is a solution.
That issue is one is one that is in the very shakey hands of the Palm Inc.

Jon

 

[Guest]

Windows Mail is a part of Vista, and very hard to uninstall without doing
the same to the rest of Vista. However, you can keep it from doing much
if you start it by removing all the accounts under it, and make it hard to
start by deleting all shortcuts for it.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Aside from making Vista's Windows Contacts unusable, Outlook 2000
has other issues with Vista, see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm