Send Email Messages in Future
December 31st, 2005
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Would you like to send an email to yourself or your friend, such that it is delivered at a future date like on 1st January 2010 … several unique email services make it possible.
Free Future Email Services
Here is a small collection such future emailing services…
- FutureMe – Specify the email address, subject, message and the date to be sent in the future. The drop menu shows the last year as 2036. You can also keep the email private or as a anonymous public one. No registration needed.
- Mail to the Future – allows you to send mail to yourself or others at a specified date and time in the future. But requires registration and “your browser must send us a cookie that contains an encoded password. Luckily, if you have an email account somewhere, it’s very easy to get such a cookie.”
- FutureMail – lets you send yourself reminders, notes, or any information you want to have in the future. You can even share your future items in a public RSS feed or your own FutureMail Blog. Registeration required.
- Forbes Email Time Capsule – was designed as an experiment to allow readers to communicate with their “future selves.” and seems to be no longer available for more emails. “On Nov. 30, 2005, we sealed the time capsule, and copies of the application and data are now saved at Yahoo! and at Codefix Consulting.”
- MyLastEmail – allows its members to store personal information, and deliver them to a family member or friend once you have passed away. Following registration, it allows you to store text, images and audio messages for free. If you want to store more images, audio or videos to send in future, they charge a fee.
Before you send an email in future, ponder this…
Will these services exist till the period you want the email to be sent?
What is the guarantee that your email will be delivered?
What if your email address changes?
Do you trust your private / personal messages get into the right hands in future?
If there are other such services, let me know in comments and I will add them here. If you seem convinced – send a email in future this new year eve!
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Another site that does this is LetterMeLater.com. Registration is not required but free. You can select the future date and time that emails are to be sent, and they can be edited before then. When registered, you can set your local time zone, and have the return address on emails sent as your own.
Another one is WhenSend.com. Also gives you option of “Unsending” messages.
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Another one is Sendible.com, which lets you schedule emails as well as SMS and Social Network messages.
There is also L8R (later), Cron Mail (fr), 2067 (fr)
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There is a new service called Deferred Sender that allows you to send emails in the future, from your existing email client without needing to use a web interface. Visit http://www.deferredsender.com for more information.