Defer mailmessage sent

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Hi All

Using Outlook.MailItem you can set a DeferredDeliveryTime to send at a certain date/time in the future.

Does anyone know how to do this using Net.Mail.Mailmessage?

I am hoping it can be done using the MailMessage.Headers but cant find any documentation on it anywhere.

Thanks

What I have tried:

Googled everywhere, looked at the MSDN documentation.

Posted 20-Mar-18 1:31am

dnibbo

Updated 20-Mar-18 2:16am

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-20T02:17:00

According to

PidTagDeferredDeliveryTime Canonical Property[^]:
MAPI does not perform the deferred delivery; it is an option of the underlying messaging system to handle deferred delivery.

you would have to find out which "messaging system" is used by Outlook and if that is also used by Net.Mail. But I guess it is related to Outlook and Exchange only: So how does this ‘Deferred Delivery’ thing work? – You Had Me At EHLO…[^].

The RFC 4021: 2.1.65. Header Field: Deferred-Delivery[^] is mainly of informational purpose. The standards allow gateways to delay mails having this field but you should not rely on that.

You can implement it in your application using a timer when your application is not terminated while having queued mails. Or you can start your application using a scheduler and let it check for mails to be send.