Long-awaited by some, this feature can prove very practical: email programmingIt took a while, but Gmail finally has this option by default.
Scheduling an email allows you to set a date and time to send a specific email. Rather than sending it immediately, you can determine when it will leave your mailbox.
The interest is multiple. If you send important emails that you prepare at odd times, it may be interesting to make sure that they are sent at logical times. If these are professional emails that you write in the middle of the night, you will certainly prefer to make sure that it is sent early in the morning… unless the objective is to show that you work a lot… On the contrary, your 18 p.m. email, you will be able to send it early in the evening to give the impression of working non-stop!
This can also be a way to send reminders to your contacts on specific dates or times…
In short, The usefulness of being able to schedule the sending of emails is not to be demonstrated, by the way, most professional email clients have this possibility. But let's see how it works with Gmail.
Schedule an email to be sent with Gmail
Rest assured, sending an email at a given time and/or date with Gmail is very, very simple!
When you compose an email on the web version of Gmail, you will notice a small arrow on the right side of the blue “Send” button.
By clicking on it, the option "Schedule sending" will appear. Click on it.
You will then be able to choose the date and time at which you wish to schedule your email.
From then on, you will be able to find all your scheduled emails in a specific Gmail folder that you will discover on the left bar. This will allow you to cancel the scheduling of an email by going to it and clicking on "cancel sending". Your message will then open in composition mode and you will be able to delete or modify it.
There you go, it's not more complicated than that!
Article updated on January 24, 2021 by Byothe
