Snooze and send later

Snooze

Press S on a selected thread to snooze it.

What snooze does

1. Thread disappears from active lanes until the snooze time
2. A snoozes row is stored with snoozedUntil
3. Thread remains in Gmail — snooze is app-side visibility only

Picking a snooze time

The snooze picker offers presets (later today, tomorrow, next week) or custom datetime.

Waking up

When snoozedUntil passes:

• Cron job (/api/cron/process-due) deletes expired snooze rows
• Thread reappears in its classified lane on next refresh or Pusher update

Cancel snooze

Use the snooze UI or DELETE /api/inbox/snooze with { "threadId": "..." }.

Send later

When composing a reply, you can schedule outbound mail instead of sending immediately.

Undo window

Default send flow uses a 5-second undo window:

1. You press Mod+Enter
2. Send is queued with sendAt = now + 5s
3. Toast offers Undo — cancel via DELETE /api/inbox/send
4. After 5s, cron dispatches the message via Gmail

If you set an explicit future sendAt, there is no undo window (undoWindowMs: 0).

Dispatch immediately

PUT /api/inbox/send with scheduledSendId forces immediate send before cron picks it up.

Cron requirement

Send-later and snooze expiry require an external cron pinging:

POST /api/cron/process-due
Authorization: Bearer $CRON_SECRET

Every 1 minute (Vercel Hobby cron is daily-only — use cron-job.org).

See Deploy to production.

Status tracking

Scheduled sends have status:

Related

• Keyboard shortcuts — S and Mod+Enter
• API routes — snooze & send