Scheduled sending

The Schedule button sits next to Send in the new message window, in the reply under a thread and in the forward form. The message waits on the Faldro server and goes out at the chosen time — your browser can be closed by then.

Picking a time

Each preset shows its exact date next to it. Clicking a preset schedules the message straight away — just like Gmail; a custom time needs confirming.

Times follow your browser's clock: "8:00" means 8:00 in your time zone, even if the server is somewhere else. Limits:

• the time must be in the future — a moment that has already passed (e.g. the form sat open for a long time) means a normal send;
• at most one year ahead.

After scheduling, a bar confirms "Message scheduled for …" with an Undo button. A new message takes you to the Scheduled folder; a reply or forward takes you back to the thread.

Undo cancels the scheduled send. For a new message, the message window opens with the text, recipients and subject restored (without attachments); for a reply you go back to the thread with "Scheduled reply cancelled." — you'll need to write the text again. A forward is simply cancelled.

A scheduled message goes through the same pre-send checks (e.g. the question about many recipients) at the moment you schedule it.

The "Scheduled" folder

The Scheduled folder in the left sidebar (with a counter) shows the whole organisation's queue of pending sends — in a team you can see who scheduled what. A member limited to a multi-inbox only sees sends from their own mailboxes.

Each row shows the subject, a "reply" or "fwd" tag for replies and forwards, a paperclip icon for attachments, the recipients, the name of the person who scheduled it, the send time (in your browser's time zone) and the mailbox. Clicking the subject of a reply opens its thread.

This folder also shows messages waiting in the 30-second "Undo" window after a normal Send.

Cancelling and editing

A scheduled reply or forward can't be edited — cancel it and write it again in the thread. Only a message that is still waiting can be cancelled; one that is already going out is out of reach.

When sending fails

If the SMTP server rejects the message at send time, there's no retry. A red box appears above the list — "Scheduled messages that failed to send (…, last 7 days)" — with the subject, recipients and the server's message. What the common messages mean: Help: sending fails.