Drafts, and what happens when you press Send

The three steps

• •Press Send and pick where your email lives. Your mail app opens with everything already written.
• •Read it, change anything you want, and press send there. That is the moment it actually goes.
• •Come back and tap "I sent it". Skoutd logs it on the program timeline, which is what your next follow-up reads to know what you already said.

Why it works this way

An email that leaves your own account is the one a coach is most likely to receive and to trust. It carries your address, your name and your history, rather than arriving through a service.

It also means you see the message exactly as the coach will, and nothing is sent that you have not read.

If you use iCloud, Yahoo, or a mail app on your computer

Gmail and Outlook open with the message already in place. Yahoo fills it in but strips the line breaks, so the formatted version is copied to your clipboard — click in the message, select all and paste to get the paragraphs back.

Apple publishes no way for a website to fill in an iCloud message, so choosing iCloud opens your inbox with the email on your clipboard. Press Compose and paste, then add the coach’s address and subject from the draft.

On a phone, there is one option and it is the right one: your device’s own mail app, which takes the message whatever its length.

What Skoutd can and cannot see

It depends which way you sent it. When the email leaves your own account, Skoutd cannot tell you whether it was delivered or bounced — if a coach’s address is out of date the bounce arrives in YOUR inbox, so it is worth checking there after a batch. When Skoutd sends it for you, the provider reports back and the delivery status appears on the message.

Nobody can tell you whether a coach opened it. Skoutd does not track opens, and any service that claims to is guessing from a tracking pixel most mail apps now block.

Replies come to your own inbox, because it is your email. When one arrives, log it on the program so your next follow-up knows about it.

One coach at a time

Every email goes to exactly one person. You can prepare drafts for several coaches at once, but each is addressed and sent on its own — a message that is obviously a broadcast is the fastest way to be ignored.