Recurrent emails

Question

[copied from GT FB group]

If a user doesn't finish the program, I'd like to send a reminder every two days for a week.

However, with this construction, it appears I'm receiving the email instantly.

*email
    *every: 2.days
    *until: calendar::now + 7.days

Can I use the *when command along with *every to postpone the first reminder? If so, the 2.days below would start on the second or third day?

*email
    *when: calendar::now + 1.days
    *every: 2.days
    *until: calendar::now + 7.days

Or am I misunderstanding this and is there's a simpler way to send a recurrent reminder every other day?

 

Answer 1

To send the first email in two days I think you just need to add: *when: 2.days. But also you may just want to schedule each individual email you want to send, that is, use *when on multiple emails with no *every and no *until since really it looks like you're talking about just sending 3 or 4 emails. You can also have them be canceled if the person comes back.