How to send a letter to yourself in the future or right now using Yandex.mail and why is it necessary? Video tutorial: Email, delayed sending of a letter Delay in delivery of one message.

I invite you to watch another useful video tutorial on the topic Email. We'll sort it out new feature postal system Yandex, which is called “delayed sending of a letter”.

In ordinary life, we somehow don’t think about the fact that some letters are best sent at a certain time. Imagine a situation where you are sending some document to your management and you don’t want this document to get lost in the pile of other emails.

Usually, when the recipient comes to work and opens his mailbox, he sees a whole series of letters that have been “attacked” throughout the night and early morning. Even if your email is on this list, it may simply be accidentally deleted along with the advertisement, especially if you have a habit of sending emails without a subject line.

It's a completely different matter if your email will come, for example, at 11 o'clock in the morning. The addressee has already dealt with urgent matters, has freed up a little and therefore, most likely, will treat your letter more attentively and favorably.

Let's find out how you can write a letter “right now” and send it “when necessary”.

Video tutorial: Email, delayed sending of a letter

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Delayed sending of emails is provided today by postal Mail services and Yandex, and in Gmail it is possible to configure the sending of emails on a schedule through an application for modern browsers.

This most useful function saves time and allows you to schedule sending emails on a schedule at a given time. For example, you need to send an important letter tomorrow, but you know that you will be traveling. In this case, you can prepare a letter and attached materials, specify the date and time of sending, and the mail service will send the letter according to schedule.

How to schedule a letter to be sent in Mail

In order to schedule a letter to be sent in the Mail.ru service, you need to click enter your mailbox and click the button "Write a letter".

Specify the recipient, subject, text of the letter (if necessary) and add attachments.

To schedule a shipment, click on the clock icon in the toolbar, as shown in the screenshot, and specify the date and time of shipment.

The scheduled email will be stored in the folder until sent "Outbox", where you can cancel the sending or change the date and time.

How to set up delayed sending of a letter in Yandex mail

Also enter the mail, prepare the letter for sending and next to the button "Send" Click on the clock icon.

Set the date and time and press the button "Send".

The letter can be found and edited in the folder "Outbox".

This is how you can quickly schedule your email to be sent on a schedule. Nothing complicated, but how they will help out. Especially when you know in advance what and where to poison. So much time is freed up at work))

Delayed sending of emails in Gmail

Unfortunately, mail users Gmail service There are no standard tools in the mailbox to schedule the sending of letters. At least at the time of writing this article there is no such possibility.

But it is possible to install the Boomerang for Gmail plugin, which does an excellent job of scheduling emails to be sent. In addition, it integrates perfectly into the Google Mail inbox.

You can download and install the plugin from the link above. And this is the video with official page will show you how this tool works.

You can delay delivery of an individual message or use rules to delay delivery of all messages by opening them in outbox folder within a certain time after pressing the " Send".

Message delivery delay

After pressing the button Send the message will remain in the folder Outgoing

If you later need to send a message immediately, follow the steps below.

Note: This feature only works if Outlook is running in interactive mode.

You can delay the delivery of all messages by two hours by creating a rule.

    Open the tab File.

    Select an item Manage Rules and Alerts.

    Select a team Create a rule.

    In the dialog box Step 1: Choose a template in Group Start with an empty rule select an option Applying a rule to messages I send and press the button Further.

    On the list Further.

    Yes

    On the list Step 1: Select actions check the box delay delivery by [date] min..

    In the dialog box, click the underlined word number

    Select the check boxes for any exceptions you want.

    In the dialog box Step 1: Set a rule name

    Check the box Enable rule.

    Click the button Ready.

After pressing the button Send Outgoing for the specified time.

Single message delivery delay

After pressing the button Send the message will remain in the folder Outgoing before delivery time.

Note: Service click Setting up accounts. On the tab Email in column Type

Delay delivery of all messages

    On the menu Service click Rules and Alerts and press the button Create a rule.

    In field Step 1: Choose a template In chapter Start with an empty rule click Check messages after sending and then click the button Further.

    On the list Step 1. Select selection conditions check the boxes for the options you want and click the button Further.

    If no check boxes are selected, a confirmation dialog box will appear. If you press the button Yes, the created rule will be applied to all sent messages.

    On the list Step 1: Select actions check the box delay delivery by [number] minutes.

    In the dialog box Step 2: Change the rule description (click the underlined value) click the underlined word number and enter the length of time to delay messages before sending (in minutes).

    Dispatch may be delayed up to 120 minutes.

    Set the required exceptions.

    In the dialog box Step 1: Set a rule name Enter the name of the created rule.

    Check the box Enable rule.

    Click the button Ready.

After pressing the button Send every message will be delayed in the folder Outgoing for the specified time.

Note: If you are using a POP3 account, Outlook cannot be closed before the message is sent. To determine the type of account, on the menu Service click Setting up accounts. On the tab Email in column Type Lists the account types in the active Outlook profile.

Through this service, you can write a letter with a delay from 1 day to 100 years - not only to yourself, but also to a friend or even a stranger. You are free to attach a file up to 500 KB in size or a snapshot from a webcam to the news. By paying $7, you have the option to send a letter in paper form.

To use the site, you will have to register on it. Future-mail also has a section with letters that their senders chose not to hide from the public eye.

One of the most simple services of this kind. Write a message, indicate your name and email recipient, as well as the delivery date, and then wait.

The letter can be sent a maximum of 100 years in advance, but you should choose a shorter period: the site is based on pure enthusiasm, so it can cease to exist at any moment. However, the authors say that the costs of maintaining the service are minimal, so it is unlikely that it will close soon.

The project from St. Petersburg was born quite recently and has a much nicer design than many other services. The site stands out in that letters on it can only be sent a year in advance. Despite this limitation, more than 270,000 people used the service in a few days.

There are situations in life when we need to send a letter by e-mail not immediately, but after a certain time. Some of mail servers, for example, Yandex, allow you to send a letter automatically. How exactly to do this?

Instructions

  • Log in to your Yandex mailbox. To do this, enter in the field address bar your Internet browser www.yandex.ru. On home page The site has an email address on the left side, enter your username and password to log in to your email address.
  • A page with incoming letters will open in front of you. Just above the letters there is a “Write” button - click it.
  • Now write the letter itself. To get started, enter your address mailbox the person to whom you are sending this letter. Next, indicate the subject of the letter; it should reflect a summary of what you are writing. Finally, enter the text of the letter in the largest window. If you want to format your letter in a special way, click the “Format letter” button on the right. Clicking this button will open the text formatting panel. If you wish, you can check the text for spelling errors by clicking the “Check Spelling” button. If you need to attach any files to the email, click the “Attach Files” button, upload them from your computer and attach them to the email. You can also install one of additional functions, for example, notification of receipt of a letter, SMS notification of the recipient of receipt of a letter, etc.
  • Now comes the fun part. When you have finished working with the letter itself, you need to send it. So that it is sent to the recipient automatically, i.e. not immediately after you wrote it, but after a certain time, below the text of the letter, find the inscription “Send today to...”. Check the box next to it to activate it this function. Set the exact date and time of sending. By clicking on the icon with a question mark, you can read help for this function. Attention: sending a letter can be delayed for no more than one year from current date. Once the entire process is complete, click on the “Submit” button.