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Awesome, yes, I think these are quite easy to hack into existing mail clients. As I mention in the article, I hacked up Snooze in Pine. I think your "delay fo

by dreeves 16y ago

Awesome, yes, I think these are quite easy to hack into existing mail clients. As I mention in the article, I hacked up Snooze in Pine. I think your "delay for n days" feature is indeed what I (and http://HitMeLater.com http://HitMeLater.com, it turns out) call Email Snooze. I don't think you've got the other two proposed features though, based on what you've described so far. Maybe those wouldn't be so useful for you -- sounds like you have a great system.

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
The re-ping feature you mention is one of the "extras I mention - I've implemented it in a separate script. Dropping an email into an appropriate folder means it's watched by a script, and if a reply to it comes in, it gets deleted. If it's not deleted after 7 days it re-appears in my inbox. Your other feature is "archive after X days." I'm trying to work out if I'd want it, but I don't think I do. But the fact that I've hacked the other two features into my existing workflow certainly shows that they are potentially interesting/useful. Hope that's interesting.
- dreeves 16y ago
  That's super cool that you've hacked up two of these features already. Want to share the scripts? For re-ping though I think I'd rather it to be one of the compose headers so it would be part of composing the mail rather than having to take another action, after sending, to schedule the re-ping.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    The scripts are ugly, bug-ridden and fragile. I wouldn't let anyone see them, and I don't really have the time to tidy them up. Having said that, I will go and have a look at them again later this week. Feel free to email me again to remind me and ask me how it's going. No guarantees, though ...