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<articleinfo>
<title>The &i18n-sendlateragent; Handbook</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<personname>
<firstname>Laurent</firstname>
<surname>Montel</surname>
</personname>
<email>montel@kde.org</email>
</author>
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<copyright>
<year>2013</year>
<holder>Laurent Montel</holder>
</copyright>

<date>2013-08-30</date>
<releaseinfo>&kde; 4.11</releaseinfo>

</articleinfo>

<sect1 id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>
&i18n-sendlateragent; is an akonadi agent which allows to send scheduled mails once or repeatedly.
</para>

<sect2 id="using-kapp">
<title>Using &i18n-sendlateragent;</title>

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<para>Use <menuchoice><guimenu>Message</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send Later</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
in &kmail;'s composer window to open a dialog which allows you to schedule your emails to send 
at a specific date and time.</para>

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<para>You can configure it to repeat sending the message by checking <guilabel>Repeat every</guilabel> 
checkbox and selecting the desired intervals.</para>
<para>
This is useful if you need to send out reminders to someone on a consistent basis, &eg; employees.</para>
<para> You can put the message in your queued messages by selecting the <guibutton>Put in outbox</guibutton> 
button or select the <guibutton>Send Later</guibutton> button to schedule the message immediately.
</para>
<para>This agent works independent from &kmail; and does not need a running &kmail; instance or &kmail; being
in online mode.</para>
<para>If you have no network connection when a scheduled message should be sent, the agent will report an error
and ask if you want to resend it later.</para>
<para>At login to a &kde; session the agent checks the scheduled messages and sends all 
messages overdue since the last logout if necessary.
</para>

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<para>To change the options for later scheduled messages use <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure Send Later Agent...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in &kmail;.
</para>

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<screeninfo>Configure &i18n-sendlateragent;</screeninfo>
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<para><action>This brings up a dialog that allows you to modify the schedule and remove emails 
that have been sent using the send later feature.</action>
</para>
<para>It is not possible to change the content (body, headers &etc;) of a scheduled message.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="credits">

<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>&i18n-sendlateragent;</para>
<para>
Program copyright 2013 Laurent Montel montel@kde.org 
</para>
<para>
Documentation Copyright &copy; 2013 Laurent Montel montel@kde.org
</para>

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