Enhancement requests

[UTR UTR]

Just installed today but it is looking good so far so thank you very much.

I did want to make a couple requests and I hope this is how you would like them communicated...

• Fuzzy send time:  Not high priority but I have found it useful in the past to have the send time be 'fuzzy'.  i.e. Send time set for 9:00am but have a variance value set by user..let's say 25mins.  This would actually send the recurring outbound message randomly between 25mins before 9:00am and 25mins after 9:00am.  This is so the recipient doesn't receive the message at the exact same time each day and they feel it's coming from a box and automatically delete it, etc.
• GUI Select days of Week: In the extension gui, add the ability to choose days of week.  i.e. When manually creating a recurring message I can say "repeat every week on mo,tu,we,th,fr"... I'm asking for this ability included in the GUI
• GUI edit built subject line: In the extension gui, it's nice to see the subject line being built and displayed at the bottom.  Until all features are added to the GUI, it would be helpful to be able to manually edit the built subject line to add options like days of week, exact send time, etc.

I hope this is helpful (and also the way you would like this communicated).  Thank you very much for your work on this.  It is VERY useful and I appreciate it.

All my best,

Russ 

[Admin]

Hey Russ. Thanks for the great suggestions! See my comments below...

• Fuzzy send time:  Not high priority but I have found it useful in the past to have the send time be 'fuzzy'.  i.e. Send time set for 9:00am but have a variance value set by user..let's say 25mins.  This would actually send the recurring outbound message randomly between 25mins before 9:00am and 25mins after 9:00am.  This is so the recipient doesn't receive the message at the exact same time each day and they feel it's coming from a box and automatically delete it, etc. -- This is a good idea. Maybe I could support a time like "~9:00am" which would randomly select a moment near that time. The downside is that the cheapest way to run the service is to process the mail at intervals (like every 15 minutes) rather than every minute. However, I might make the service more accurate in the future.
• GUI Select days of Week: In the extension gui, add the ability to choose days of week.  i.e. When manually creating a recurring message I can say "repeat every week on mo,tu,we,th,fr"... I'm asking for this ability included in the GUI -- Actually, this is already available. Just select the option to repeat weekly and a list of days will be presented so you can repeat messages on day(s) of the week.
• GUI edit built subject line: In the extension gui, it's nice to see the subject line being built and displayed at the bottom.  Until all features are added to the GUI, it would be helpful to be able to manually edit the built subject line to add options like days of week, exact send time, etc. -- I hadn't made this field editable since to avoid having someone modify it in an invalid way. However, I can see how this could be useful for things like choosing a more granular delivery time. Again, it's not really relevant right now since the service is only processing mail every 15 minutes in order to keep the costs down.

[UTR UTR]

I don't see an edit option to my post so I'll just reply.  Spelling error---

"coming from a box" should be "coming from a bot"

[UTR UTR]

I appreciate you replying and thanks for your comments on the items.