How to pause Send Later?

[Cow Bear]

I have Send Later setup to send an email every morning.  But I want Send Later to be inactive during holidays or when I am on vacation.  I tried disabling the add-on the night before.  But when I reenabled the add-on later the next day, Send Later unexpectedly sent the email anyway as if to makeup for not being able to send earlier that morning.  Is there a way to pause Send Later without having to delete the scheduled draft and recreate it later?

[Jonathan Perry-Houts]

This is deceptively complicated, because Send Later works by periodically checking whether there are messages that need to be sent. If it finds one that's past due, then the default behavior is to send it immediately. You can prevent that by setting the "Don't send messages more then ____ minutes late" option in the Send Later preferences, but then the message won't be re-enabled until you schedule it again manually. There isn't currently any "skip the next recurrence" sort of functionality. Depending on how important this is to you, the one option available at the moment would be to write a custom scheduling function, assuming you know ahead of time which days you'll want to skip.

The short answer is that there isn't an easy solution to this. You'll likely have to re-schedule the message by hand when you want to skip a day.