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When you compose an email and click Send, Gmail dutifully ships out your message right away. However, there might be times when you want your email delayed until a certain time or even a certain day. For example, you might want a newsletter email to go out at midnight tonight. Similarly, you might prefer that a message to your team be delivered first thing Monday morning.

Whatever the reason for the delay, you can set up a message to be sent later, by following these steps:

1 Create, address, and write your email in the usual way.

2 Click More Send Options.More Send Options is the downward-pointing arrow to the right of the Send button.

3 Click Schedule Send.Gmail offers up the Schedule Send dialog box, which looks suspiciously like the one shown in Figure 2-7.FIGURE 2-7: Use the Schedule Send dialog box to tell Gmail when you want it to send your message.

4 If one of the three offered dates and times works for you, go ahead and click it and then ignore the rest of these steps. Otherwise, click Select Date and Time.Gmail opens the Select Date and Time dialog box, which offers a calendar and a time text box.

5 Use the calendar to select the date on which you want your message fired off.

6 Use the text box to enter the time you want to send the message.

7 Click Schedule Send.Gmail makes a note to send your message on the date and time you specified.

Your scheduled messages get parked in the Scheduled label until it's time for them to hit the road.

What happens if you have a message scheduled to be sent later, but you realize you'd rather send it now? No problem: Gmail is happy to cancel the schedule and send your message right away. To make this happen, choose Scheduled on Gmail's main menu, click the message, and then click Cancel Send. Gmail opens the message in a separate window, and you can then click Send to fire the message into the ether right away.