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Sleidia

Sleidia

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Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a way to send a mail with Sendmail and make sure that the recipient will get the mail after a certain amount of time has passed?
Also, the delay shouldn't be fixed.

Thank you very much.
 
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There can't be a way. Mail is delivered via SMTP these days in the internet (see rfc 821, 822), which implements no guarantee for successfull delivery. You can configure sendmail either to deliver or to bounce a message after a specific time, but in case of delivery you can never be sure whether the recipient gets your mail or not.

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