any progress on sending multiple drafts?

[billhansen]

Quite a few people have posted to various groups, asking whether it's
possible to send multipe drafts with one click, using Gmail. I have
the same question. Replies I've seen are all at last a couple of years
old. Has Google/Gmail done anything in the past year or two to
implement this? Can it be done at all, short of linking the emails to
Outlook?

Bill Hansen

[Zack (Doc)]

Bill,

I've not heard so, and frankly I don't even know how to do that in Outlook.  Personally, I wouldn't want to do this myself as I prefer to know what I'm sending, and if I've saved it to drafts I either didn't finish it, or wanted to reconsider sending it.  If it was ready to send when I typed it up, I'd hit send not save to draft.

Zack

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[Michael Methot]

I'm actually quite confused as to this topic myself. Can anyone explain how they would use such a feature? I just can't figure out how such a feature would prove helpful in any way.

Mike

[Andy]

> I'm actually quite confused as to this topic myself. Can anyone explain how
> they would use such a feature?

I'm confused too, on an even more basic level. What does it mean to
"send multiple drafts" with one click?

In Gmail, "drafts" are normally not sent, they are saved, until ready
to be sent, at which time they are sent and are no longer drafts.

Does "multiple" mean several different messages, or one message going
to several recipients?

How many is multiple? Hundreds? Thousands?

This question sounds like something a spammer might want to do. Or
perhaps for legitimate reasons by someone doing a newsletter or email
list, which are better handled by other means.

Andy

[Michael Methot]

Oh, and as far as the actual solution goes, I haven't found anything. I thought I had something, but it turned out to be a brainfart. Found that if you select a bunch of messages and move them, say to the inbox, they stay checked, but there's still no way to send them all to their individual recipients. I'll keep playing around, see if I can find a work around of sorts. 

Something I have found that is very useful, is a service called Boomerang. It can quickly mark messages to be sent at a later date, or you can specify the message to go back into your inbox if you don't get a reply. Check it out here. 

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Michael Methot <majj...@gmail.com> wrote:

After a bit of pondering, the only thing I can think of is if you didn't want people to know you were up at 3 in the morning, so you write a bunch of emails, save them to drafts, and send them in the morning. Other then that, I'n clueless as to why you would need to bulk send from the draft folder. Bill, clue us in, would ya mate? :P

[Michael Methot]

After a bit of pondering, the only thing I can think of is if you didn't want people to know you were up at 3 in the morning, so you write a bunch of emails, save them to drafts, and send them in the morning. Other then that, I'n clueless as to why you would need to bulk send from the draft folder. Bill, clue us in, would ya mate? :P

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Sarah]

Zack, I work like you; but I can see some people may use drafts as somewhere to store messages until they wish to send them. With outlook, I think you can just multiple select in drafts, and as long as they are addressed - "send".
I assume Bill means he wishes to have a feature where he can select a number of completed messages in drafts and click "send".
However, most of the occasions that I can imagine, where multiple send from drafts would be a useful feature are as Andy says better handled by other means.

[Sarah]

Or...you want to send out a number of messages to different individuals or groups, and you don't want anyone to be jealous because someone else got it before they did.
Or...you have an overwhelming compulsion to only send mail at eleven minutes to nine.
Or...I'd better stop.

Bill, no offence intended, this speculation is not directed at you personally.

[Andy]

> After a bit of pondering, the only thing I can think of is if you didn't
> want people to know you were up at 3 in the morning, so you write a bunch of
> emails, save them to drafts, and send them in the morning.

Back when I last used Outlook (not O.E.), it did have a way to delay
when a message is sent ... to queue it up to send at a selected time.

Andy

[Sarah]

There are add-ons for thunderbird that can schedule drafts to be sent at later time & also send multiple drafts.
At the moment, the only way to send multiple messages from drafts with gmail is to use a client application like Outlook or Thunderbird.

[Michael Methot]

Boomerang can take care of those compulsions. ;) No offence intended Bill, although I really don't see how that could be seen as a direct attack, so I'm only apologizing on because Sarah mentioned it. Seriously, check it out, it's a sweet little addon. 

[bill hansen]

Thanks to all who replied. My use for the multiple-send email feature in Outlook was just for convenience. With Outlook, it was just nice to write a half dozen emails to family, friends, forums, groups, etc - go from writing one email to writing the next - and then send them all at once. It seemed to be a smoother flow of emails than writing one, sending it, and then going on to the next.  I get only about 20-30 emails a day, and I reply to only about 5 to 10 of those. I can live with the single-service Gmail way of doing it.

 

Thanks again - Bill Hansen

 

 

 

[James Breen]

Bill, Outlook looks cool as a browser. I have heard this before from some of my Veteran pals. Especially if you need multiple messages sent ou as in a group function or family. Glad you mentioned it. Jim, Poconos, Pa.

[James Breen]

Dear Guys,

 

Just one point regarding my recent upset over Internet Explorer updating its gig. When I went to chat with the webmaster about my beefs? A dashing, handsome photo of Ted, or Jack I forget whom.......and a fee of $45.00 was the charge for him to solve your issues. Boys......I got out of that page so quick......even Ted blushed. (grin). Ain't no way gentlemen. No way. Jim, Poconos, Pa.

[Sarah]

James,
Like I said, if you want to go back to using a previous version of internet explorer, you can just uninstall it, and download the version number you were using before the update.
It's not difficult to do, and there are plenty of help or support articles which will guide you step by step if you are unfamiliar with installing or uninstalling programs.
Try typing "uninstall internet explorer" into a Web search.

One further point, relating to your other post about Outlook...
Microsoft Outlook is an email program, not a Web browser.
You use it to access (one or more) email accounts, and to compose, manage, send and receive email.

[James Breen]

Sarah, Did not know that about Outlook. Thanks. For me to undo and dump this I.E. and reload it? I am not sure If (we) ever saved the original one on a backup. Plus......this is not my laptop. It is my wife's. A gift from her staff and boss when she retired. I am a mere guest on this thing.(grin). So it seems that every move or button I push......affects her stuff. She is on a different address, but still on I.E. So I can't just start pushing buttons and deleting stuff. An example? Two months ago I signed up on Yahoo. I did this alone without council from her. Filled the entire thing out. Then shut down the unit for the night. Next morning? All Hell broke loose. It seems that since I signed up.....Yahoo takes over like a Muslim Terror group. Only friendly. The entire page of the screen was Yahoo. Not a bad thing mind you....even had our local mountain weather up here on it. And....more news. But it simply blew the wife's stuff out of existence. She had to sit down....and rework the entire thing and delete yahoo. Sharing a laptop or mainframe is sometimes more complex than it would seem. Yes? Thanks for the tips Sarah. Do you use this stuff as a pro? Your grateful pal in the higher elevations, Jim, Poconos.

[Sarah]

Hello James,
I've nearly stopped laughing, wonderful turn of phrase; it's not just Yahoo that's inclined to mug your browser...quite a few services of that type have their sights set on your homepage; generally it can be undone.
I should correct my earlier statement: Outlook does have some capability to operate as a browser, as well as its primary function as an email client, and personal information manager, & it's capabilities in this area have developed since I last used it to any degree; so I'm out of date!
I'm not currently working in IT in a professional capacity; I hold some general basic IT qualifications, and others, in more specialised areas, E.g. in GIS applications.
On the subject of sharing a computer; it can be helpful to have a separate profile for each user; this prevents changes made by one user affecting the other's stuff. It takes very little time (seconds) to log off one user, and log on to another, & allows any number of users to have individual settings.
If you click the start menu on your laptop, then click "control panel", then click "user accounts", you can add a new account. You can find out more by looking up "user accounts" in windows help.

[James Breen]

Dear Sarah, My frustrations lay in the simple fact that my emails to I.E. have not been addressed. Photos of handsome web masters just said that for a $45.00 they would solve my issues. Sarah, these are not my issues. Last week? I was fine. Now? I can't even read my emails at all. The weird thing is.....for about six hours? It was fixed. Then it went back to a blue screen of a 6x4 rectangular nature. What gives? Dumb stuff dear Sarah. James of the mountains, Poconos. Pa.

[James Breen]

Dear Sarah, Thanks. I am still angry and so disappointed at I.E. I can't begin to write my feelings. It is still messed up. So I type this under my Mozilla FireFox Browser that my daughter installed awhile ago. And I am in my older version of gmail. The new version seemed okay for a half day....then went nuts. Lost my toolbar.....that never came back. So I am done for now with Internet Explorer. The only humor, if any is the nerve of their webmasters to try to get a $45.00 fee from me to solve......my problems. They are my problems. Had none until they updated me. Thanks for the tips. I am too fearful to make a move that would affect this laptop. My wife uses it for bills, shopping and so on. It seems that what I do affects her stuff. And she hates computers. Didn't used to .....until retirement three years ago. Thanks again, Jim, Pocono mountains, Pa.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Sarah <mail...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Nan_Lynne]

The reason would be for those who get massive amounts of emails per day and don't want to endlessly reply to the replies of replies... Once you reply to one email, the chances are they will reply back and it can go like this for hours in a day, trapping you behind a computer. Better to reply to the important or urgent ones right away, and leave the ones less urgent to send out at the end of the day. That way you only have to reply once a day. If it's urgent, they will just call you!