Paul Berkowitz' excellent Delay Send X script

Paul (or anyone else who might be able to help me out):

I sometimes use your "Delay Send X" to set up a series of emails to be sent
at a later time (such as when I want to remind people of a series of
meetings by drafting the email today, and sending it out the day before the
meeting).

The problem is that the time-stamp on the email is when it is created (i.e.,
today) and not when it is sent (i.e., in three weeks) so when they receive
the email, if their inbox is sorted by date sent (as mine is) it will not
appear as if it is a recent email, but instead will be deemed "unread" but
sent weeks earlier.

Is there a way to correct this so that the time-stamp reflects when the
message is sent, and not when it is written? Is it in the applescript? I
do not see this in the Delay Send X preferences.

Thanks in advance!

- James

Daiya
Thu Oct 20 12:29:07 CDT 2005

This isn't an Entourage bug? Time sent is always time last modified?

This problem happens without using the script as well (and drives me utterly
and completely insane because I have to open up a bunch of messages in my
outbox, make a fake edit, and then send them to prevent my students from
realizing I check email in the middle of the night).

If the script could instead make that fake edit open/space/backspace/save or
in some other way update the time for me, that would be a lovely trick.

Best would be to fix the Entourage design, of course. I've not sent myself
test messages to try it against SP2 yet, but it's certainly the case in Ent
2004.


On 10/20/05 9:58 AM, "James Sarna" wrote:

> Paul (or anyone else who might be able to help me out):
>
> I sometimes use your "Delay Send X" to set up a series of emails to be sent
> at a later time (such as when I want to remind people of a series of
> meetings by drafting the email today, and sending it out the day before the
> meeting).
>
> The problem is that the time-stamp on the email is when it is created (i.e.,
> today) and not when it is sent (i.e., in three weeks) so when they receive
> the email, if their inbox is sorted by date sent (as mine is) it will not
> appear as if it is a recent email, but instead will be deemed "unread" but
> sent weeks earlier.
>
> Is there a way to correct this so that the time-stamp reflects when the
> message is sent, and not when it is written? Is it in the applescript? I
> do not see this in the Delay Send X preferences.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> - James
>

James
Thu Oct 20 12:43:30 CDT 2005

Daiya:

Actually, you're right. I just did send myself a test message by creating
it at 1:31 local time and putting it in the outbox and sending it at 1:41
and when I got it back about 30 seconds later, it said 1:31.

So, Paul, what do you (or anyone else) think about this?

- James


On 10/20/05 1:29 PM, in article BF7D21F3.4D1E9%daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID,
"Daiya Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:

> This isn't an Entourage bug? Time sent is always time last modified?
>
> This problem happens without using the script as well (and drives me utterly
> and completely insane because I have to open up a bunch of messages in my
> outbox, make a fake edit, and then send them to prevent my students from
> realizing I check email in the middle of the night).
>
> If the script could instead make that fake edit open/space/backspace/save or
> in some other way update the time for me, that would be a lovely trick.
>
> Best would be to fix the Entourage design, of course. I've not sent myself
> test messages to try it against SP2 yet, but it's certainly the case in Ent
> 2004.
>
>
> On 10/20/05 9:58 AM, "James Sarna" wrote:
>
>> Paul (or anyone else who might be able to help me out):
>>
>> I sometimes use your "Delay Send X" to set up a series of emails to be sent
>> at a later time (such as when I want to remind people of a series of
>> meetings by drafting the email today, and sending it out the day before the
>> meeting).
>>
>> The problem is that the time-stamp on the email is when it is created (i.e.,
>> today) and not when it is sent (i.e., in three weeks) so when they receive
>> the email, if their inbox is sorted by date sent (as mine is) it will not
>> appear as if it is a recent email, but instead will be deemed "unread" but
>> sent weeks earlier.
>>
>> Is there a way to correct this so that the time-stamp reflects when the
>> message is sent, and not when it is written? Is it in the applescript? I
>> do not see this in the Delay Send X preferences.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> - James
>>
>