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18 Mar 2019, 07:29 PM | #1 | |
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Gmail might be getting scheduled emails
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20 Mar 2019, 05:39 AM | #2 |
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I like the idea. I often work on things on weekends or odd times of the day, and it would be great to schedule emails to arrive when someone is likely to read the message. Email marketing studies indicate the best times for email opens tend to be mid-morning on weekdays. I've experimented with this quite a bit for email newsletters and such and Tuesday at 10am tends to be quite good, and Saturday at 10am can also be effective. I think the same situation prevails for personal messages you want to be read. It would be nice to cue up a birthday email the weekend before the birthday and know it will be delivered on the right day.
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20 Mar 2019, 02:44 PM | #3 |
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Everything can be used and abused. If scheduled emails are to be deployes to send spam at times "when someone is likely to read the message" then this new facility isn't exactly good news.
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20 Mar 2019, 06:48 PM | #4 |
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Email marketing companies have been scheduling emails for years. They analyze when you are most likely to open your emails and automatically adjust sending time so the email arrives in your Inbox at the right time. This is individualized for each person's habits. For example, I see very few marketing emails outside of morning hours, which is when I tend to check them. I personally don't find this abusive at all, but to each his own. I get very little SPAM because I unsubscribe if I don't want emails from some company, and if they don't honor the unsubscribe I block them in Gmail and they are gone. This is one of the great benefits of using Gmail--very little SPAM.
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20 Apr 2019, 04:26 AM | #5 |
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I have a Gmail account, but I hardly ever use it, it's mainly just a back-up I guess. I use this service to schedule an email. It has it's own web interface, or one can compose and schedule an email in one's own email client or service.
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20 Apr 2019, 01:22 PM | #6 |
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Gmail scheduled send is now available
This new schedule send feature is now working in my account when I use web browser or iOS app access. I don't have an Android device and I'm not sure if this feature is being rolled out at one time or slowly across accounts. The web feature using my PC appeared to be available a little before the iOS feature showed up on my iPhone.
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20 Apr 2019, 05:12 PM | #7 |
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It appears to be available for android gmail apps also. At least it is for my account, but as Bill said, they may be just slowly rolling it out. I don't remember exactly how to do it, but I started to compose a new email and that feature was available. I haven't tried it yet either.
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20 Apr 2019, 07:39 PM | #8 |
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It is available on the Android Gmail app. When composing an email select the three vertical dots in the upper right corner and you get four options: send this morning, send this afternoon, send this evening, and choose a date and time. This will actually be useful to me as I correspond to some people in other time zones and I know that emails are more likely to be seen and opened when a person is awake and using their phone.
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26 Apr 2020, 10:30 PM | #9 |
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i wish fastmail would do this..i came here thinking maybe fastmail has implemented such a feature but no, apparently. not.
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