Title: Delay Email Last modified: September 15, 2023 --- # Delay Email * Resolved [cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/) * (@cadrago21) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/) * Hi Guys, I am using your fantastic plug. * I have created several forms linked to E2PDF with which customers fill in their quote request and receive a response with the PDF quote attached to the email. * The problem is this request receives an immediate response. * Is it possible to make it so that the reply from forminator comes after like an hour, simulating that the quote was created by me and not by the system? * thank you Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Support [Nebu John – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport14/) * (@wpmudevsupport14) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17054289) * Hi [@cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/), * Trust you are doing good and thank you for reaching out to us. * Could you please check if the following code snippet helps? * [https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-nebu/8156116010f009ab3a6823f74a24ecbe](https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-nebu/8156116010f009ab3a6823f74a24ecbe) * The code can be added using a mu-plugin. I hope the following guide comes in handy: [https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins](https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins) * I hope that helps. * Kind Regards, Nebu John * Thread Starter [cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/) * (@cadrago21) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17060609) * Thank you for your reply, I have entered files and code, but I cannot understand how to handle them. * How can I manage the delay? * I tested after entering the file and code the delay but it doesn’t work. Is there graphically a panel for managing the delay? * Thanks as always * Plugin Support [Laura – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support8/) * (@wpmudev-support8) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17062667) * Hi [@cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/) * There is no panel for that as there is no such setting in Forminator and the code that my colleague provided is a custom workaround. * However, I read your initial request and looked into the shared code and I think there was a bit of misunderstanding on our end. * You are simply expecting e-mail notifications to be sent automatically with a 1 hour delay, right? * The code shared is for sending massive number of notifications in batches and on a selected date only (where date is selected on the form) so that’s a bit different. I think the code would require some modification so I’ve asked my colleague who created it to give it another look. * I’d appreciate some patience but we’ll update you here again soon. * Kind regards, Adam * Thread Starter [cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/) * (@cadrago21) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17062700) * Thank you for your kind reply, in fact while checking the code I could not quite understand how it works. * I would just like to be able to choose, via a simple code variation, the delay time for sending emails. * That there is a possibility through the code to change the number to correspond to seconds or minutes to determine the delay of the reply email and make my system more realistic than automated. * Thank you very much indeed * Plugin Support [Laura – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support8/) * (@wpmudev-support8) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17068887) * Hi [@cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/) * I understand that and I’m surely not expecting you to modify the code. * I’ve asked our developers to look into it to see if it would be possible to achieve such delay and if it is doable – we will provide with working code and a clear instruction on how to apply it to the site. * I’m aware that this is taking long and I’m sorry for keeping you waiting but I would appreciate a bit more patience as it’s about custom solution and our developers need to check it first and then come up with the code while at the same time dealing with a lot of different custom tasks. * We will update you here again once we got feedback. * Kind regards, Adam * Plugin Support [Laura – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support8/) * (@wpmudev-support8) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17084856) * Hi [@cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/) * I got feedback from our developers on this and I got a new code that should match your needs. * First, please completely remove the one previously shared (if you didn’t do that yet). * Then add a new one and here is how to do this: * 1. create an empty file with a .php extensions (e.g. “forminator-delay-notificaitons. php”); use some kind of a “clean text” editor for editing this file, such as Notepad++, Sublime or similar * 2. copy and paste following code into that file: * ``` form_id != $custom_form->id ) { return $email; } // We need the $entry for replacing email vars: $this->entry = $entry; // Return an empty array so it won't send the notification on submit return array(); } public function store_messages( $form_id, $response ) { if ( $this->form_id != $form_id || is_null( $this->entry ) ) { return; } //$form = Forminator_API::get_form( $form_id ); //$setting = $form->settings; $post_data = $_POST; $messages_queue = $this->get_queue(); if ( empty( $messages_queue ) ) { $messages_queue = array(); } $messages_queue[ $form_id ][] = array( 'form_id' => $form_id, 'entry_id' => $this->entry->entry_id, 'page_id' => $post_data['page_id'], 'timestamp' => time() //'post_data' => $post_data ); update_option( $this->queue_option_name, json_encode( $messages_queue ) ); } public function send_batch() { $messages_queue = $this->get_queue(); if ( isset( $messages_queue[ $this->form_id ] ) && ! empty( $messages_queue[ $this->form_id ] ) ) { $queued_items = array_slice( $messages_queue[ $this->form_id ], 0, $this->emails_per_batch, true ); foreach ( $queued_items as $key => $queued_item ) { $form_id = (int) $queued_item[ 'form_id' ]; $entry_id = (int) $queued_item[ 'entry_id' ]; $timestamp = $queued_item[ 'timestamp' ]; //$post_data = $queued_item[ 'post_data' ]; $form = Forminator_API::get_form( $form_id ); $entry = new Forminator_Form_Entry_Model( $entry_id ); $post_data = $this->data_from_enty( $entry ); if ( ! $form || ! $entry ) { continue; } $currentTime = time(); if ( $currentTime - $timestamp < 3600 ) { continue; } unset( $messages_queue[ $this->form_id ][ $key ] ); // A few hacks that we need : // 1. We need the page_id to avoid a warning message $post_data['page_id'] = (int) $queued_item[ 'page_id' ]; // 2. We also need to set the $_POST too to avoid above warning $_POST = $post_data; // 3. If we don't want to resend to admin if ( ! $this->resend_to_admin ) { unset( $form->settings['use-admin-email'] ); } // 4. We are currently blocking the email template to be sent. We need to unblock it now though remove_filter( 'forminator_form_get_admin_email_recipients', array( $this, 'block_default_email' ), 20 ); // All should be set to go $forminator_mail_sender = new Forminator_CForm_Front_Mail(); $forminator_mail_sender->process_mail( $form, $entry, $post_data ); } if ( empty( $messages_queue[ $this->form_id ] ) ){ unset( $messages_queue[ $this->form_id ] ); } update_option( $this->queue_option_name, json_encode( $messages_queue ) ); } } private function data_from_enty( $entry ) { $post_data = array(); foreach ( $entry->meta_data as $key => $meta ) { if ( ! isset( $meta['value'] ) ) { continue; } $post_data[ $key ] = $meta['value']; } return $post_data; } protected function get_queue() { return json_decode( get_option( $this->queue_option_name ), true ); } public function wpmudev_schedule_cron_mail() { if ( ! wp_next_scheduled ( 'wpmudev_forminator_emails_schedule' ) ) { wp_schedule_event( time(), 'every_minute', 'wpmudev_forminator_emails_schedule') ; } } } if ( ! function_exists( 'wpmudev_forminator_emails_schedule' ) ) { function wpmudev_forminator_emails_schedule(){ return WPMUDEV_Forminator_Emails_Schedule::get_instance(); }; add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'wpmudev_forminator_emails_schedule', 10 ); } } ``` * 3. now you need to edit one or two lines, depending on your needs * a) in this line * `protected $form_id = 6; //Please change the form ID` * replace number 6 with your form ID; form ID is the number you see in form shortcode * b) if you want delay different than one hour, you need to replace value 3600 in this line * `if ( $currentTime - $timestamp < 3600 ) {` * Since 3600 = 1hr, you can set it e.g. to 1800 (half an hour) or 7200 (2 hours) and so on; * 4. save the file and upload it to your server to this folder of your WordPress installation: * _/wp-content/mu-plugins_ * And that’s it, it should then work out of the box. * Kind regards, Adam * Plugin Support [Nithin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport11/) * (@wpmudevsupport11) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17104064) * Hi [@cadrago21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cadrago21/), * Since we haven’t heard from you for a while. I’ll mark this thread as resolved for now. Please feel free to re-open the thread if you need further assistance. * Regards Nithin Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Delay Email’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/forminator/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3443182) * [Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder](https://wordpress.org/plugins/forminator/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/forminator/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/forminator/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/forminator/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/forminator/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/forminator/reviews/) * 7 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Nithin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport11/) * Last activity: [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delay-email/#post-17104064) * Status: resolved