A save date is not a send date.

Answer A save date is not a send date. RFC 8514 describes the IMAP SAVEDATE extension. The date a message was saved is not the date it was sent and not the date it was read. The document is RFC 8514, titled Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - SAVEDATE Extension. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

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The note that started this: RFC 8514, Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - SAVEDATE Extension, RFC 8514.

A rented send is one letter to someone else's list. The day a mailbox saved a message is not that letter, and it is not the day the letter went out. A seller who points at a save date and calls it the drop is pointing at mail software. A buyer who was promised a send day needs that day on the order. A save date does not read the mail either. The document separates save from send and save from read. Keep the separation.

Look at solo ad pricing only after the order says which send you are buying. A price pinned to a save date is a price pinned to the wrong clock. The save date will not name the list, the sending domain, or the refund line. Ask for those in writing. If the seller's proof of timing is a date inside a mailbox, ask what that date actually records. If they say it records the save, it is not the send.

What is a save date in this document?

RFC 8514 describes the IMAP SAVEDATE extension. The date a message was saved is not the date it was sent and not the date it was read. The document is RFC 8514, titled Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - SAVEDATE Extension.

A message can be saved into a mailbox on a day that is not the day it was sent. It can be saved on a day that is not the day anyone read it. The extension is about that saved date. It is not a diary of the campaign. When a screenshot shows a date, ask which kind of date it is. If the answer is the save, do not let anyone narrate it as the drop, and do not let anyone narrate it as a read.

You can have a perfect save date and still have no send to the list you named. The letter still has to leave from the named sending domain, to the named list, under the refund line you accepted. The save date does none of those jobs. A seller who cannot tell save from send is not ready to take the order. A buyer who cannot tell them apart is ready to pay for the wrong day.

The order states the send you agreed to, in words.
A save date is not copied onto the order as the drop.
A save date is not reported as a read.
The list, the sending domain, and the refund line are named before you pay.

Can a save date stand in for the send day?

No. A save date is not a send date. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

Do not end a timing argument by reading the save date aloud. If the order never named a send, you do not have a timing dispute yet. You have a missing line. The seller's job is to write the send in the confirmation. The buyer's job is to refuse a mailbox date as that writing.

Reads are a separate mistake. A person did not read the letter because a save date exists. The document says the save is not the read. If a report uses the save date as evidence of attention, the report is about storage. Attention you might care about is a person requesting the offer. That request is not a date on a stored message. Keep it out of the save column.

What belongs on the order instead of a save date?

A buyer still has to name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. Put the send you agreed to on that order. Do not copy a save date out of a mailbox and call it the drop.

Say the list. Say the domain that sends. Say what the refund line says if the send is not the send you named. Then say, in the same note, what you mean by the send. The document can sit in the folder for anyone who confuses a save with that send. It is not the folder. A seller who leads with the extension and skips the names is selling a clock inside mail software.

Compare best solo ad vendors by whether they can say the list, the domain, and the refund line without borrowing a save date. A vendor who needs the mailbox date to sound exact is exact about storage. Storage is not the rented letter. Pay when the order carries the send. Leave the save date in the mailbox where the document put it.