Scheduling transports

When the manual transport works OK, it’s time to setup a call schedule.

1. Select the Setup menu and Transport schedule.
2. To the right, you have a common schedule to start with. You may think that - “I don’t need a schedule for weekends, no one is working anyway…“, that’s true, but often the mail and UUCP service at your ISP

expects mail to be delivered within a certain time, and if you don’t fetch the mail within that period (which mostly is around 24 hours), it will start sending mail to each of the authors of all queued mail, and inform them that “Your mail is still undeliverable after X-hours/days“. Now, these mails won’t disappear, you’ll get them with the next transport, but the authors will probably think there is an error and send again…

3. Choose Weekdays from the Day drop-down menu.

4. Select Interval, and for example 1 hour

5. Set an arbitrary delay, around 1-15 minutes (If you don’t, Mailcoach will call exactly on the hour as most UUCP packages do, which results in poor performance when everyone calls at the same time.)

6. Select you working hours, for example between: 07:59 and 18:00

7. Press the Add button

8. Repeat the above step to setup a Weekend schedule with Interval of at the most 12 hours.

9. Check the Activated option to start the scheduled transport.