Question Re: send mail delayed in Technology Q&A

send mail delayed

EnnoWulff — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:46:49 GMT

Hey Community!

Is there a way to send a mail to a specified time using CL_BCS?

I did not find any hint where to set a time when the mail should be sent.

Yes, I know, I can program a job that starts to that time and sends the mail, but I wonder if there is a built-in way for this.

Thanks for any hints

~Enno

Re: send mail delayed

RaymondGiuseppi — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:59:52 GMT

As far as I'm aware, this isn't something you can do with CL_BCS. You can easily submit a background delayed job, working with SOST/SCOT tables is risky and more difficult.

Re: send mail delayed

EnnoWulff — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:03:49 GMT

Thanks for the confirmation, @RaymondGiuseppi !

Re: send mail delayed

Ryan-Crosby — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:17:55 GMT

You could try the following but you'd also have to put in work to generate the timestamp for a future date/time and the domain definition suggests UTC. Please note that I believe the normal way would be to call the SEND_SCREEN method which appears to allow a user to input such information.

DATA: email TYPE REF TO cl_bcs, exc TYPE REF TO cx_bcs. * Generate one in the future for true delay GET TIME STAMP FIELD DATA(timestamp). TRY. * Generate send request email = cl_bcs=>create_persistent( ). email->send_request->set_send_at( timestamp ). * Create and set document ... * Create sender and recipient addresses ... * Send document DATA(sent) = email->send( ). IF sent IS NOT INITIAL. COMMIT WORK. ELSE. ROLLBACK WORK. ENDIF. CATCH cx_bcs INTO exc. * No email sent - do nothing here ENDTRY.

Regards,
Ryan Crosby

Re: send mail delayed

EnnoWulff — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:21:46 GMT

Cool! Thanks @Ryan-Crosby! That looks promising! I will try this

Re: send mail delayed

Ryan-Crosby — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:25:57 GMT

@EnnoWulff let me know if it works...

Re: send mail delayed

EnnoWulff — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:37:53 GMT

@Ryan-Crosby it works! Thanks a lot!

Re: send mail delayed

RaymondGiuseppi — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:54:27 GMT

I will try this option, which I wasn't aware of.