Is there any software that delays email until you are sober?

[dullard]

Odd question.

Suppose someone routinely gets himself into massive trouble with emails written while drunk at 3 am. Is there any software that will:
1) Delay sending any email written in the hours of say 1 am to 6 am until the daytime.
2) Ask the user if he is still interested in sending the email the next day when he is sober.

This is necessary for my boss. He keeps getting the company into massive trouble and he admits it. Now it is potentially affecting everyone's job. It would be installed with his permission of course.

 

[Platypus]

I'm sure there's a USB breathalizer out there somewhere

 

[tfinch2]

I haven't heard of any, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

 

[Hyperblaze]

you could shutdown the mail server during those hours?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

just set up his router to block traffic from 12AM to 8AM.

 

[Yossarian]

just fire the boss, wtf.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
you could shutdown the mail server during those hours?

It is a small company, we use a service for the e-mail. I suppose they may have the ability to shut it down at night. But what will happen in the daytime, will the email be asked to be resent, or will it be sent automatically?

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
just set up his router to block traffic from 12AM to 8AM.

Same question I have for Hyperblaze. Will the email automatically be sent when the router is back online?

Originally posted by: Yossarian
just fire the boss, wtf.

It is his company.

 

[mugs]

I know of nothing that specific...
however I used to use Eudora which allowed you to specify in the preferences whether to queue a message for sending or actually send it. If you set it to queue your messages you had to make a point of clicking another button to send it. This was back when people would actually dial in, download their e-mail, disconnect, reply to e-mail, then reconnect and send it, so I don't know if Eudora still has that feature.

I think your boss needs AA, not computer software.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: mugs
I know of nothing that specific...
however I used to use Eudora which allowed you to specify in the preferences whether to queue a message for sending or actually send it. If you set it to queue your messages you had to make a point of clicking another button to send it. This was back when people would actually dial in, download their e-mail, disconnect, reply to e-mail, then reconnect and send it, so I don't know if Eudora still has that feature.

I think your boss needs AA, not computer software.

I won't deny that latter point.

 

[broon]

Post some examples of the emails.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

How about just disable the email application on his computer between certain times? Make a little script that checks the time when it's being opened and then based on that, decides if it should open up the actual executable or not. You'd probably want to just change where the shortcut points to for this, pretty simple method.

If he leaves it running, make a process that shuts it off after a certain time if it's found running.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
just fire the boss, wtf.

Yeah, if he's continuing to jeopardize company interests with his behavior and is making no effort to change the behavior itself, restricting his email access is just delaying the inevitable. This situation sounds like a ticking time-bomb.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
How about just disable the email application on his computer between certain times? Make a little script that checks the time when it's being opened and then based on that, decides if it should open up the actual executable or not. You'd probably want to just change where the shortcut points to for this, pretty simple method.

If he leaves it running, make a process that shuts it off after a certain time if it's found running.

Sounds like an interesting and potentially successful option. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this?

 

[Kev]

fire his dumb alcoholic ass?

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Kev
fire his dumb alcoholic ass?

read the thread, he owns the place.

 

[lightpants]

This would be useful... how about this:


@ECHO OFF
CLS
:LOOP
echo ARE YOU DRUNK? Y?N

SET Choice=
SET /P Choice=Type y or n and press Enter:

IF NOT '%Choice%'=='' SET Choice=%Choice:~0,1%
ECHO.
:: /I makes the IF comparison case-insensitive
IF /I '%Choice%'=='y' GOTO ItemA
IF /I '%Choice%'=='n' GOTO ItemB
ECHO "%Choice%" is not valid. Please try again.
ECHO.
GOTO Loop
:ItemA
ECHO Go Home you drunk ass, stop trying to send email!!!
GOTO Again
:ItemB
ECHO OK
start thunderbird.exe
GOTO Again
:Again
CLS
:End


Copy the text and past it in notepad.
Save it as email.bat to the directory that his email application is located.
If he does not use thunderbird, then you will have to change the 5th to the last line to be the .exe of his email application.
Just change his email shortcut to point to the batch file

Good luck!

 

[imported_LoKe]

People are taking this thread seriously? WTF happened to ATOT?

 

[acemcmac]

fvcking idiot boss

 

[Hossenfeffer]

HAHA!

echo ARE YOU DRUNK? Y?N

echo O RLY?