Thanks for your responses!

Ww, im not sure how Outlook does it. I was hoping that i could give my message (ie "email entity" %-) ) to the mail server and tell it to hold it until specified datetime. I was hoping that the server would store it until the later date, not that i would store it till i want to send it.

Ken, i thought of sleeping too, but unfortunately it isnt a good idea in this case, i think. The script would need to be run every time i want to send a delayed message, and if the previous instance of the script is sleeping it would create a 2nd running instance. Then the 3rd, 4th etc etc. It makes me wary to have so many sleeping scripts. Besides, if the server needs to be restarted (which does not happen often, but enough to take it into consideration), all those emails will be lost.

In reply to Re: Email delay delivery option with Perl by Mushka
in thread Email delay delivery option with Perl by Mushka

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