Auto Response Delay

I was wondering if there was a way of delaying the auto responder function within notification settings? Would be great as I have a client who wants to portray that all emails are read within the hour.

Thanks

thanks for the quick response. will take a look and if i find a solution i'll come back in here and share :)

Just to say I also needed this functionality as I have used Gravity Forms as part of a booking system that captured the booking request then sent the user off-site to pay via RealEx. I only wanted the notifications to be triggered once the payment had been authorised even though the Gravity Form completed before sending the visitor to the payment gateway.

Basically I got around it by doing the following:

1) Created a separate table in the DB to store email notifications (but could be stored against the entry if required)

2) Using the GF hook: "gform_entry_created" I added the entry ID to the global $_POST array for retrieval later then added a new filter on wp_mail that captured the variables sent to wp_mail, stored them in the new database table (serialized) against the entry ID (fetched from $_POST) - 1 record created per notification email, and then blanked the array variables that are returned to wp_mail to stop it sending the emails.

3) Using the GF hook "gform_after_submission" I removed the filter from wp_mail so that it does not affect future emails sent out

4) When the gateway sent its response back to my site I grabbed all the stored emails for the particular entry ID from my BD table and manually called wp_mail() passing the variables - this was done in a loop as there were two notifications, Admin and User.

This worked like a charm for me but I did not need to manipulate the email notification at all so it was quite easy.

If you need example code then let me know.

MJ

No problem - I have stripped it out to the basics and commented where I feel applicable. You can find the code at: http://pastebin.com/1ZaJkVY4

Note - this can just be pasted into your functions file but I have used a custom database table (I have added the code to create the table if it doesn't exist already).

Hope it helps others.

MJ