Delayed Delivery Timestamp 1

[tomandlis]

Hi,

I use delayed delivery (mostly to make people think I am working late--a wonderful motivational tool, i.e., he's working late? Maybe I should), but I am foiled by the stupid timestamp that Groupwise puts on messages.

Try it. Make a new email to yourself, click file, properties, delayed-delivery, and set the delivery for 5 minutes from now.

When you receive the email click 'reply' and you will see the timestamp of the actual time the email 'send' button was pressed--not the time it was delivered. Arrrrrgh.

Tom

 

[1oldfoxman]

I just tried an experiment and think I have the answer to your sneaky scheme. Here's what I did:

Set up a rule (Tools/Rules)set up to react to "New Items", where items are "Received" and item type is "Mail".

I defined the condition as Subject = "time stamp". (Not contains, but equals, just for safety sake). You could use any subject meaningful to you.

I then Added Action "Send Mail". In the "new mail item" dialog box I created the mail message I wanted to send. In my case just a message back to me. In your case this would be the message you wanted to send out delayed with the later time stamp.

Save this added rule, making sure it is active.

Then I created a delayed message to myself with the subject "time stamp" (this has to match the condition in the rule you just created).

This delayed message when received by my account, generated the new mail message I defined in the rule. When this message was received, the desired, later time stamp showed up in the message and the reply as well.

I would set up the rule with a generic Subject condition like Subject = "Delayed Message Generation". Leave it intact, modify the Action in the rule everytime you wanted to send one of these sneaky messages with updated To: and message body. Then send a delayed message to yourself with the subject "Delayed Message Generation" and you get the effect you're looking for.

Hope this helps,
Dennis

 

[tomandlis]

Thanks, that worked.

Now for my next step in my evil plan Can you help with this?

I want be able to send a message from an external address (hotmail) to my groupwise address and then have groupwise forward that message to a list of users.

I want the forwarded message to be formated like it came from my desktop (and they will think I am at work when I might be anywhere). Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[1oldfoxman]

I'm thinking this may not be possible directly in GW, but would require an external program to capture the mail messages and deal with re-sending them. I'm not familiar with the exact workings of the mail server so I won't be much help.

HOWEVER, Evil One, GroupWise WebAccess is the way to go if you need to do a lot of accessing/sending GroupWise e-mail remotely from the web. That way everything you do in WebAccess doesn't just look like it's coming from a GW account, it actually IS! We use it extensively. People can access mail, calendar, to do, etc from any Internet web browser.

Dennis