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Schedule Send Date/Time for Draft Emails Automatically Sent at a Future Time

I have another email service that allows users to schedule draft emails to be sent at a specified date/time in the future. Once the draft is complete, the email is automatically sent at the future specified date/time, unless that draft email is deleted/replaced prior to the send date/time. The draft email can either reside in an existing "draft" folder or a separate "outbox" folder (as distinguished from "draft" that does not have a scheduled send date/time).

Different Emphasis from Similar Postings:
I noticed a number of other similar postings, however, I wanted to provide this new posting to possibly emphasize something more than what I saw emphasized in other similar postings: closely related general delivery options. I would suggest ProtonMail allow every draft email to have a drop down menu that provides the option for selecting "Delivery Timing" using a calendar display for selection of a date and a time field to select/enter a corresponding time on that selected date (time should be clearly set for a selected time zone, e.g., CST or GMT, to reduce possibilities for confusion on timing). Again, whenever "Delivery Timing" options are selected, the draft email can then reside either in the existing "draft" folder or in a newly appearing "Outbox" for any pending emails to be sent at a future date/time. The other email service I use provides a range of closely related general delivery options to also include:
-- "Message Priority" (Low, ******, High);
-- "Private" (to help prevent email forwarding, if clients support that);
-- "Return Receipt" and
-- "Delivery Timing" (previously addressed)
I recommend ProtonMail make these general delivery option menus accessible via one additional icon next to the existing row of icons on draft emails for "Attachments," "Encryption" and "Encryption time." The icon could be a clock next to a letter (just a suggestion), since "Encryption time" already uses a clock icon.

I don't believe other similar postings emphasize these closely associated general delivery Options. I have previously given this other email provider feedback on perfecting their services in other areas (with different providers having different strengths/weaknesses), but this is one particular feature they have had for a very long time that I believe provides an excellent example to follow.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    One of my most favourite features of other email platforms I have used is scheduled sends. Having the ability to send an email at any time in the future is amazing. Can you please, pretty please add this feature to proton mail? With this feature I believe proton mail will be one of the best email platforms out there. Along with the new Proton Drive, Proton Mail is well on it's way to #1.

  • anon commented  ·   ·  Report

    would be very keen to see a schedule function for proton; very keen to move my email work over to proton;

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I work my varied hours (from home) but I don't want to bother people with out of hours emails. Would be great if I could set the email to send (or arrive) at a specific date and time.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I also agree. Outlook has this feature as well, where you can schedule the email to be sent the next day and so on at a set time. I use it quite often. It would be super useful to have, and as a paying customer, I'm a bit disappointed that this hasn't already been implemented.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 but why is this topic under the proton calendar suggestions now, and not the ProtonMail?

  • OC commented  ·   ·  Report

    GM has this feature to program an email to be send when you want, would be a great addition to PM

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, I agree this would enhance the ProtonMail offering a great deal.

  • virgil commented  ·   ·  Report

    Self explanatory. Just write an email in the evening and schedule it to be sent in the morning

  • kkkkkkkk commented  ·   ·  Report

    this would make protonmail perfect for me, i love the organization and everything else. this is the last feature that is a must have in my book.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Comme sur Gmail et d'autres messagerie, il serait bien de rajouter la possibilité de programmer la date et l'heure d'envoie d'un mail

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Create a way to send schedule emails or if that is a feature all ready make it easier to find. I know this will be something that would be used a lot. Thank you for you time.

  • mars commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to program the sending of an email

  • Kevin Glynn commented  ·   ·  Report

    So many globally distributed teams these days, we need this feature ASAP. thanks!

  • Jiri Holly commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi, is it possible to add schedule email to send later feature ?
    When I am writin emails late night, I just want to prepare it and send it in the morning. So my customers will not be in confusion about my working time habbits. But I dont want to send it manually in the morning.
    Will this kind of feature be possible any time soon ?
    Thank you

  • Lol commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this feature ASAP. At least in 3 months and please make this as a free feature.

  • J commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is an absolute must for people who work in the evenings!

    I can't believe this got lower priority than Proton Drive work! Instead of making their core offering strong the Proton team is working on Yet Another Cloud Storage offering to have multiple mediocre services instead of one stellar one.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, this feature is a really important one for my usage habits as well! I hope to see it available in beta soon.

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