I tend to do a lot of work in the middle of the night. Is there some way I can queue up all my email in Apple Mail so that it actually is sent the next day during business hours?
There’s no way to delay or defer email that you send within Apple Mail itself, but don’t give up hope because it turns out that there’s a very neat plug-in called SendLater you can install that adds exactly the capability you seek, and does so in a manner appropriately elegant for the Mac OS X world.
Before you get too excited, though, the plug-in SendLater does have a €12.95 pricetag associated with it (that’s about $14.50 USD), but it’s quick and easy to install, really easy to use, and well worth the money if you do work odd hours — or weekends — and want to have things queue up for business hours. Or vice versa. Or prepare loving birthday missives for your sweetheart days in advance!
Once SendLater is installed, a new icon shows up on the toolbar adjacent to the regular paper airplane icon:
It’s a paper airplane with a clock icon superimposed. Okay, click on it!
It’s exactly what you seek, and as you can see there are three different ways you can schedule a message when ready to send: on a specific date and time, X minutes, hours or days from now, or on a specified time and date. (If you’re thinking that option #1 and options #3 are basically the same thing, well, yeah, they are. But that’s okay).
For this message, I want to send it at one minute before midnight, so I’ll click on “Time and Date” and enter the appropriate values:
Looks good. A click on “Send Later” and it’s queued.
A quick peek at the outbound mail queue confirms it:
Here’s what’s really cool: I closed my MacBook and left it asleep overnight. Even with the sleep, however, it apparently woke up long enough to send the email message, as demonstrated by the timestamp on the message when it arrived into another mailbox:
That’s it. Worked perfectly. Easy, attractively designed, and with narrow but specific functionality, it does exactly what it needs to do and nothing further. I think SendLater is well worth the $14-$15 for a license.
Better yet, use coupon code “SENDLATER10” to save 10% on your license. For real! 🙂
Disclosure: I have no relationship with Feingeist. I just really like the plug-in!
Has anyone been successful at getting one of the old plugins to work with the latest macOS?
Sendlater was bought by Mailbutler.io. It’s now a monthly subscription
A monthly subscription. That’s disappointing, David. Thanks for the update!
So I paid for Send Later then they dropped support for subsequent OS X updates. Needless to say there was no refund. Feingeist ought to be blacklisted imho.
Will it send later at a time when your Mac is totally shut down? not just asleep?
Mail Act On does it
This doesn’t work on sierra. Feingeist have bundled with a bunch of useless add ons and now charge a subscription fee. :<
It works now!!! They updated it.
Send Later doesn’t work anymore with sierra and have been included in mail butler 7$ a month………
Send Later doesn’t work anymore in El Capitan!
I’m very disapointed….