Scheduling a time in the future to send an email in Java or Python

Question

I\'m writing an application and I\'d like it to somehow schedule an email to be sent at a later date (likely an hour after it is run). The programming language will be Python or

Answer 1

I don't think standard SMTP protocol has such a feature, so if you want to be platform-independent, you will have to search for another solution.

How about writing your message to a queue (local database, for example) with a timestamp and then have some program watching it periodically and send pending emails out?

Is the delay an exact timedelta or is it "1-2 hours later"? If it is the latter, than you can have an hourly job (cronjob starting every hour or a background job sleeping for an hour), which would then send out the emails.