Now, we usually think of e-mail as a way to instantly communicate, but what happens if you want to freeze e-mail to send at some point way down the line? MailFreezr is a website which stores your mail for - wait for it - up to a century - and then finally pings it into cyberspace. All you do is fill out a few details on a basic form and voila, a missive ready to send in the future, so you never have to miss that cousin's anniversary ever again. MailFreezr's creator says messages are secure and confidential and will be sent on time, though filling in e-mail addresses on the web does make you prey to spam harvesters. Aside from the obvious problem that e-mail may well not be around in 50 or 100 years, the biggest drawback of Mailfreezr is that you can only freeze an e-mail in yearly increments.
If you want to use a slightly more sophisticated service, then head down to FutureMe.org. Here you can choose precisely which date you want your e-mail to be sent on. To prevent misuse of the service you have to sign-up and confirm the e-mail address you want to use as the sending address. Then after logging in, you are away: just fill in the fields and you are off. It is that simple. You can make your e-mails semi-public too which other users can read randomly on the site itself. FutureMe is primarily designed so you can make a statement or prediction about yourself, not tomorrow or next week but some point a little further down the timeline of existence. And to stay true to that philosophy, the site actually prevents you sending an e-mail less than 3 months into the future; as the founders makes clear, this site is not a reminder service. Now, if you are after a reminder service, then you will need what is called an e-mail scheduler. There are several out there, mainly in the form of plug-ins to your existing e-mail applications or office suite. But LBE Email Scheduler is one which is a standalone application, though like the others you have to pay for it after a trial period.
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