Send messages from the future

You don’t need to be near your PC or phone to contact someone over the web. Jonathan Parkyn reveals how to schedule messages to be sent at a more convenient time

Delay delivery of emails until later

There are all kinds of situations where you might want to write an email but not send it straight away. Perhaps it’s a relative’s birthday in a couple of days’ time but you don’t trust yourself to remember on the day; or you might want to send an email to a work colleague at a specific time to make yourself look industrious. With the right tools, you can type a message whenever you want and specify exactly when you’d like it sent. Precisely how you do this depends on the email service or program you use.

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