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Boomerang for Gmail update: Now in public beta with revamped UI

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50 pointszeedotme13 comments

I've known people who schedule email to go to co-workers late at night (but written during daytime) to make it look like they were up all night working.

Terrible demo for a very handy product. If the folks at Boomerang are reading this, consider having it redone by a professional.

If you think this one is bad, you should have seen the OLD demo video!

We just added a paid subscription tier (pay-what-you-think-is-fair pricing) with the new launch, and a better demo is one of the things we'd love to spend money on.

aw it wasn't that bad! perhaps the piano music was a bit cheesy but it got the point across well enough that I installed it

Sounds cool, anyone concerned about their email touching additional third parties?

You can do the same trick yourself with a little handy Python: http://snipt.org/qvnl/ Save that to your utils directory. Don't remember where I found the script I based this on, sorry!

Boomerang's UI is slicker of course.

This seems cool. Do HNers use this?

The video says that if you send an email for future delivery, you don't have to actually be logged in at that time for it to send. How does this work? Do they log into your gmail account from their servers?

"for future delivery" they can deliver it to your inbox (or someone else's) via their server. What's the need of logging-in to your account

I'm no email expert, but doesn't that raise like spam flags--a gmail originated message not coming from gmail servers?

Do you really think those newsletters, website-generated messages etc. which end up in your gmail at a particular time are from Gmail servers

I am using Boomerang pretty often.

For instance, right now I have an e-mail scheduled for tomorrow. I wrote it to a colleague that was on vacation while I was writing the message (a follow-up on a bug). In some way, I'm helping him manage his Inbox effectively: this e-mail didn't need to be read while on vacation, so why should he care.

My other typical use case is when I write an e-mail at 7pm, but I prefer it to reach the recipient the following morning at 8.45am. First, because it's working hours, so the chance that it gets lost is lower, and second, to pretend I wake up sooner than I do :)

I don't use the "postpone me receiving this e-mail" feature. For that I prefer calendar. But I do see its value.

Yep, we use Google's new OAuth API. It lets you grant access for our servers to send mail on your behalf without us having to learn your Gmail password.

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to sign up right now.

they use oauth. I'm wondering on what permissions they need. In order to send scheduled emails, I don't see the reason to have to have access to all my actual emails. Is this possible ?

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