How to send mail at a later time

is it possible?

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I have a form on my site that I would like to generate an automated response from when it is submitted.

The trick is that I want the auto response to send an hour or so after the form is submitted. If I'm using PHP to send mail is there something I can add to the header of an e-mail to tell it to send at a specific time?

[jatar_k]

not so far as I know

the approach I have used for delays is to write the information (or the whole email) to a file, then run it on cron every hour, the cron can open the file, look what needs to be sent, send them and remove them from the file.

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That's a little more than I wanted to get involved with. I was hoping for something like "X-setdelay: 2hr"

I don't have access on this server to change my mail configuration otherwise I might be able to work with that.

Judging from my search results, this doesn't seem to be something that many people are interested in.

[mcavic]

write the information (or the whole email) to a file, then run it on cron

That's the only way. Sendmail can be configured to only send messages every so often, but that would delay all mail going through the server.

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the problem is that the site is in a Windows server, so I could write the info to a database, include a time, then trigger a script to send messages then delete after a certain time.

I'm working on moving the site to a linux server, but until then I am fairly limited.

I might just stick to the old, form mail when I get a chance method, but I thought the delayed automailer would be pretty cool. Maybe that's something I can work on.

Thanks for the input.