Deferred Sender Help

Sending Email

Address all emails that you wish to send using Deferred Sender, regardless of the ultimate recipient(s) to deferred@deferredsender.com

Time Zones

By default, Deferred Sender will use UTC to interpret the times you specify. Remember to change this to your preferred time zone the first time you login.

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Specifying the recipients

To send a mail in the future using Deferred Sender, make sure you prefix the body of your original mail with the following lines.


to email addresses
cc email addresses (optional)
bcc email addresses (optional)
time to send

These parameters must be specified on separate line. The to parameter is compulsory, but cc and bcc are optional.

Specifying time

The time to send parameter is also compulsory and can be specified in words like in the phrases below :

in 7 hours
in 9 days
thursday
november
friday 13:00
mon 2:35
4pm
6 in the morning
friday 1pm
sat 7 in the evening
tomorrow
this tuesday
next month
tomorrow at 6:45pm
afternoon tomorrow

Examples

Here are a few examples:

to tim.burton@xanga.com
tomorrow 9am

will send an email to time.burton@xanga.com at 9am the next day.


to tim.burton@xanga.com, brett@yahoo.com
cc divya@gmail.com
July 13th

will send an email to tim.burton@gmail.com and brett@yahoo.com, with a cc to divya@gmail.com on July 13th in the future.

Non-English characters and Unicode mails

If you are having problems with non-English characters like Latin accented characters or characters from other languages, please ensure that you are using UTF-8 encoding. For instance, if you are using GMail, you can switch to UTF-8 encoding by going to Settings, and under General, choosing UTF-8 for outgoing message encoding as shown below.

Choosing UTF-8 encoding in Gmail

Refer to this Google Help Page for some more information.

Additional Queries

If you have any other questions or feedback, please email support@deferredsender.com, or reply to us on twitter. You can also follow updates to our service on Twitter till we setup a blog.

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