For general information on Smart Send Later, check out our feature page.
If you are using a different email client, please refer to the corresponding guide for Outlook or Gmail, where you’ll find step-by-step instructions tailored to those platforms.
How do I schedule an email with Smart Send Later?
1. Open Apple Mail and compose a new email.
2. Open the Mailbutler sidebar by clicking on the Mailbutler icon.
3. Click Set delivery date.
4. Choose a date and time for when you want your email to be delivered. You can either select a date and time from your preset time intervals or set a date and time manually.
5. Or tick Optimize delivery for, if you want Mailbutler to schedule your email for the optimal time to reach your recipient.
The information about the best time to reach the recipient is drawn from tracking information.
6. Tick Cancel delivery if [recipient] messages me, if you want Mailbutler to cancel the delivery of your email if your recipient messages you before your scheduled email is due to be send out.
7. Tick Manual delivery approval required, if you want to manually approve the delivery of your scheduled email before it's sent out.
8. If you ticked Manual delivery approval required, you will need to go to the Smart Send Later widget and manually approve the delivery of your email. If you don't approve the delivery, Mailbutler will not send the email.
To approve the delivery of your email, hover over the email in the Smart Send Later widget to reveal the three dots. Click the three dots and then click Approve delivery.
9. Click Schedule. - you still get another dialogue about the folder
10. Your email is now scheduled and will be send out at the scheduled time. Your computer can be off and offline at the time your email is being delivered.
How do I unschedule an email with Smart Send Later?
1. You can find all of your scheduled emails in the Mailbutler - Scheduled folder. And you can unschedule your emails from there.
12. To unschedule an email, click the x button in the Mailbutler sidebar.
Or, switch to the Home tab of the Mailbutler Sidebar, click the three dots next to your scheduled email, and select Unschedule.
Please note: The Smart Send Later feature should not be used to create email blasts or campaigns. Scheduling large batches of emails (more than 100) can result in a failure to send. This limit is due to most users’ servers, not because of Mailbutler.
To learn how to set an automation that reschedules your emails automatically to your working hours, please head to this article.
For general information on Smart Send Later, check out our feature page.