Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by winedog on June 15, 2016 ·

Love this add-on, but the latest update removed the Send Now button from the dialog. I have all of our users setup to ONLY have the Send Later dialog as their only option for sending email and this has everyone confused and unsure how to send a message immediately.

This is a 5-star add-on, and I'll change my review from 1-star as soon as I can resolve this issue.

EDITED: Thanks for explaining the issue and offering it as an option! Keep up the great work. Review changed back to 5 stars!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (5.1).  This user has a previous review of this add-on.

by Jonathan Kamens (Developer) on June 16, 2016 ·

EDITED: The information below is unfortunately incorrect. Please see the version notes for release 5.2.1 of the add-on for a complete explanation (it's really too long to explain here).

The release notes for version 5.1 say:

>>> In a further effort to reduce confusion about the “Put In Outbox” and “Send Now” buttons in the Send Later dialog, the “Put In Outbox” button is now only visible when the dialog is popped up using “File | Send Later” or Ctrl-Shift-Enter, and the “Send Now” button is now only visible when the “‘Send’ Does ‘Send Later'” preference is enabled and the dialog is popped up using “File | Send Now” or Ctrl-Enter.

Since release 5.1, I've heard from a number of people including you whose workflows depended on both buttons being present. This is yet another example of "no good deed goes unpunished" -- often when I make a change attempting to make the add-on work better for some people, I find out too late that it makes it work worse for others, and I unfortunately don't have enough beta testers to catch these situations before they go out to everyone.

Because of these workflows of which I was unaware, I just released version 5.2 with a preference you can enable if you want the "Send Now" and "Put in Outbox" buttons both to be displayed all the time. You'll get this release automatically when the addons.mozilla.org editors approve it, or you can download and install it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/send-later-3/versions/5.2 , after which you can open the add-on preferences and check the box to bring the "Send Now" button back.