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LetterMeLater - Email Scheduling Service

LetterMeLater - Email Scheduling Service

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
LetterMeLater delivers messages you write today at any precise time and date in the future (you can even have them recur automatically). An address book and natural language time strings add comfort. Unfortunately, you cannot schedule LetterMeLater messages from your email client, and attachments are not supported.
Pros
  • LetterMeLater lets you schedule emails for future delivery with precision and ease
  • You can send from any of your email addresses using LetterMeLater
  • LetterMeLater includes an address book that can import and lets you set up groups, too
Cons
  • You cannot schedule messages from your email program or access sent LetterMeLater messages
  • You cannot send file attachments with LetterMeLater
  • LetterMeLater could verify better that an email address belongs to you, play better with SPF
Description
  • LetterMeLater allows you to compose email messages now and have them delivered later.
  • You can specify precise delivery times (up until January 19, 2038). LetterMeLater understands "tomorrow" and similar terms.
  • LetterMeLater lets you schedule emails using plain text or rich HTML formatting, and you can use any From: address.
  • Scheduled emails can be edited or canceled at any time. LetterMeLater keeps an archive of sent mail, too.
  • The address book can import contacts from CSV files and lets you set up groups for bulk mailing.
  • You can have LetterMeLater send you a reminder three days before a messages is scheduled to be delivered.
  • Alternatively, you can hide a message and prevent editing until after delivery. Messages can also be made public.
  • Messages can be set to repeat hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, or at individually selected dates.
Guide Review - LetterMeLater - Email Scheduling Service
Oh, if only I had written that email when I first thought of it. Then it was too early. Now it is too late.

Alright, this time I did write the message when first it came to mind and saved it as a draft. Not much better. The draft is still in the "Drafts" folder, way past its due date.

Do you sometimes wish you could write an email now and have it delivered later? Of course, email programs have a hard time doing that since they would have to be running and online at the right time. Web-based email services should be able to deliver scheduled emails on time, however. Shouldn't they?

LetterMeLater is no fully blown email service, but it does allow you to schedule emails, and it does so well. Not only can you write messages (using HTML formatting if you wish) now and have them delivered at any precise time until 2038, you can schedule messages to repeat at an interval, too. For cycles outside the norm, you can schedule individual dates, which is not ideal but might work.

LetterMeLater may not sport the smoothest outfit, but it has two features lending very smooth and helping hands: an address book that imports from your current email program and natural language recognition for dates and times. You can schedule messages "30 minutes" from now, or "next Friday", for example.

Of course, you can edit or cancel schedule emails. LetterMeLater can even mail you a copy three days before the delivery date as a reminder. If you want to prevent yourself from changing gears, you can also hide individual scheduled messages, however.

Unfortunately, you cannot include attachments with your LetterMeLater messages. Ways to submit messages by email or to access the archive of sent messages from a desktop email program would also be nice.

While it's great that LetterMeLater lets you use any From: email address, it could verify these addresses more strongly.

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