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jrockway
on Oct 7, 2008
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New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
This is easy enough to do on a UNIX machine. Compose your message, then delay the sending with at:
$ at 8:00am sh -c 'mail person@normal-sleep-schedule.com < my_message.txt'
attack
on Oct 7, 2008
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Unless you want to delay it until birthdays or some other event that's weeks or months away.
jrockway
on Oct 8, 2008
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at lets you specify dates as day/month/year. All you have to do is make sure the computer is running at that time, which is easy if you do this on your mail server.
attack
on Oct 8, 2008
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That I know. I would never depend on a command line command to execute something months from now. Not on any system.
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