8 services for sending emails to the future

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Sites to help you postpone sending an email or paper letter.

Letters to the future are a great way to remind yourself of old dreams and experiences, or just share thoughts and emotions that you can't tell anyone else. Lifehacker offers a list of services through which you can write to the future yourself or another person.

1. Future-mail

Through this service, you can write a letter with a delay of 1 day to 100 years - not only to yourself, but also to a friend or even a stranger. You are free to attach a file up to 500 KB in size to your newsletter or a snapshot from a webcam. Having paid $ 7, it is possible to send a letter in paper form.

To use the site, you have to register on it. Also on Future-mail there is a section with letters that their senders preferred not to hide from the public.

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2. MailFuture

One of the simplest services of this kind. Write a message, enter the recipient's name and email address, and the delivery date, and then wait.

The letter can be sent a maximum of 100 years in advance, but it is worth choosing a shorter period: the site is kept on pure enthusiasm, so it can cease to exist at any time. However, the authors say that the costs of maintaining the service are minimal, so it is unlikely that it will close soon.

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3.in a year.rf

The project from Petersburgers was born quite recently and has a much more pleasant design than many other services. The site stands out in that letters on it can be sent only for a year in advance. Despite this limitation, more than 270,000 people used the service in a few days.

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4. FutureMe

The service is in English, but it is easy to understand it without knowing the language. On the main page, enter the text of the letter, indicate the date of sending and the mailing address of the recipient, decide on the privacy of the message and click on the bright gradient button.

The site has a section where you can read public letters. A more customizable Pro version for teachers, communities and brands should be available in 2018.

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5. LetterMeLater

This site looks more like a full-fledged email client than just a service for sending emails to the future. You will need to register on it, but you will get access to both the address book and a convenient editor. In the When to Send field, the date is indicated, and you can also configure interval sending. Then the letter will come to you at regular intervals. It is possible to attach a file to the message.

Initially, the service is free, but for $ 20 a year you can send more emails to more people, and the attachment size limit will grow to 50 MB.

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6. Letter 2 Future

A service that stores all emails in the reliable Swiss computer security service MOUNT10. The site additionally offers a service for sending paper letters, which costs $ 6.

Letter 2 Future has a function that allows you to make promises to yourself: you ask yourself a question, and after a specified time you honestly answer it by mail. After that, the service will provide a graph that shows how regularly you fulfill your promises.

The site may be slow in Google Chrome, but pages load without problems in Microsoft Edge.

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7. Yandex. Mail

Letters to the future can also be written through some traditional postal services, for example, through Yandex. Mail. In the window for composing a letter, next to the yellow "Send" button, there is an icon with a clock. Click on it and select the date and time of sending. In the recipient line, enter your own address so that the letter will be sent to your mail.

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8. Gmail

To set up delayed sending in Google mail, you have to install the Boomerang extension, which is available for all popular browsers. In the window for writing a letter, under the blue "Send" button, a red Send Later button will appear. Compose your message, specify the addressee, click the button and select the date and time of sending.

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