A simple script to postpone your own email

The feature from Google Inbox that I miss the most when using ordinary GMail.<p>I find the Google Inbox browser UI horrible, which is why I still use GMail.

For Gmail you can do similar scripting with Google Apps Script. This isn&#x27;t exactly the same, but it&#x27;s a similar example. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmailblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;07&#x2F;gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmailblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;07&#x2F;gmail-snooze-with-apps...</a>

I have a setup with mutt as MUA and offlineimap&#x2F;msmtpq for smtp&#x2F;imap handling mainly because I always want an offline access to all my mail hosted on gmail which I can search anytime when without network access.<p>deferring email is a breeze with e.g. msmtpq set this in .muttrc:<p>set sendmail=&quot;msmtpq --wait 30&quot; set sendmail_wait=-1 #send in the background<p>same is possible with postfix ...

very cool! i use followupthen.com for the same purpose.

Nice, with this you can achieve the &quot;snooze till later&quot; functionality of Mailbox that I still miss to this day.

I remember using &quot;at cat mail and pipes &quot; from my DMZ with a correctly configured postfix satellite. Thus requiring no additional login&#x2F;pass to be stored.<p>Ho! It still should works.<p>Reinvention of the wheel maybe? Or the wisdom of old sysadmins being forgotten in the maelstrom of devops culture?

Sweet. I like how this is not tied to one provider. Scheduling emails is helpful when you write in batches, and recipients are better to receive the emails step by step.

Simple solution and sounds like it should work with any IMAP provider (provided you tweak the code).<p>Well done!

I use lettermelater.com

this is how I usually do it:<p>~$ echo &#x27;mutt -s &quot;Call a client at 9:00, 9 Apr&quot; lowry@localhost &lt;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;null&#x27; |at 8 Apr &lt;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;null