The Send Later Agent Handbook

[Yuri Chornoivan]

субота, 21 вересня 2019 р. 00:06:51 EEST ви написали:
> On Friday, September 20, 2019 10:01:24 PM CEST you wrote:
> > пʼятниця, 20 вересня 2019 р. 22:30:08 EEST hw написано:
> > > The Send Later Agent Handbook
> > > Laurent Montel <montel at kde.org>
> > > Scarlett Clark <scarlett at scarlettgatelyclark.com>
> > > Revision KDE
> > > 
> > >  4.12 (2013-11-30)
> > > 
> > > Copyright © 2013 Laurent Montel
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ... seems rather outdated and doesn't provide any information.  If there
> > > is
> > > still such an agent, at least I didn't find it.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I wanted to know why messages which are supposed to be sent later can
> > > not
> > > be sent at all.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Strange... It works for me in KMail 5.11 (Applications 19.04).
> > 
> > The docs are slightly outdated. Now the agent can be configured via
> > "Settings -> Configure KMail... -> Plugins -> Send Later Agent".
> > 
> > Thanks. This will be fixed asap. But the docs provide useful information,
> > imho.
> 
> Thanks! :)  When you can't find the agent and it all looks entirely
> different and doesn't work like this, there is no information in the doc.

No, it looks and behaves absolutely same (the code has not been changed for ~6 
years, only Oxygen decoration theme has been replaced by Breeze).

> I don't understand how this is supposed to work.  Configuring the agent only
> shows a dialog saying "No messages waiting", and there is nothing to
> configure.  That seems to be the same dialog box under "File->Delayed
> Messages...".

To configure the agent you should create the Send Later message first. As it 
is said in the docs:

"Use Message → Send Later in KMail's composer window to open a dialog which 
allows you to schedule your emails to send at a specific date and time."

> The only thing I have found is the dialog that is configured to come up upon
> sending a message, asking whether "Send Now" / "Send Later" / "Cancel". 
> When I choose "Send Later", the message is being put into "Local
> Folders.outbox". When there are messages there, the dialog box under
> "File->Delayed Messages..." still says "No messages waiting".  The doc
> says:
> 
> 
> "You can put the message in your queued messages by selecting the Send Later
> button to schedule the message immediately."
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what "queued messages" means, this outbox seems to be the only
> place showing messages designated to be sent later.  Messages in "Local
> Folders.outbox" may or not be sent and may or may not be removed after
> trying to send them --- a while I ago, I had to move the messages from
> "Local Folders.outbox" into a Drafts folder and to choose "Send Now" in
> order to send at all without too much effort.

The "queued messages" are the messages you have created to send them later 
(see above). It would be strange to configure delayed action without the 
message itself.
> 
> Maybe there is some place where messages to be sent later are queued, or am
> I not using the right way to queue messages to send later.  It could be an
> entirely different feature; I'm only using it to send some messages later
> so I can look at them later and decide whether to actually send or to
> modify them first.
> 
> So looking at the doc, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what kmail looks
> like and does --- see screenshots ...
> 
> > If you have some troubles with the Send Later agent itself do not hesitate
> > to ask at kdepim-users@
> > 
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users
> 
> Thanks, see https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=156865078719331&w=2
> 
> > or file a bug report here:
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kmail2
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your work.
> 
> Well, is this a bug?

It depends. To be honest, my email provider (ukr.net) forbids such tricks with 
delayed messages so this feature cannot be used. This can be thought as a bug.

Best regards,
Yuri