Delaying a mail send for a day?

[Anon]

Hi there,

on my site there's a form which e-mails the user directly after they fill out and submit the form. This works fine, however, it now needs to send the mail exactly 1 day after the user submits the form!

I'm not too sure how to do this.

We have a Windows 2000 dedicated server, so I could set up a Scheduled Task, if thats the easiest way.

Any tips or advice would be helpful!

Thanks.

[Anon]

I think the best way then would be to store users' emails in the database or in the text file and then run PHP from Windows Scheduler.
And run it as a CGI executable. The script would go through the list of emails in the database and send out the emails.
Only thing is if you need to send it EXACTLY 1 day after, then you should log the time the user submitted the form also. And set the scheduler to run the script, say, each 5 minutes. That would make it +-5 minutes difference.