Defer Email Delivery in Microsoft Outlook [Outlook Tip] - SendMeRSS

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User comment: Comment from chrissv

I set up a one minute “think about it” delay when sending mail. It lets me 1) take back something sent out of anger or spite, and 2) remember to attach the attachment (saves embarrassment)

chrissv

User comment: Comment from downstairs

I’m not sure why anyone would care when you sent an email, but this is a great tip for those times you accidentally hit send.

But if someone sends me an email at 2am or 6pm, I’m still going to read it when I read it… and why would I care when they sent it?

downstairs

User comment: Comment from kureshii

This is a great help! Now I don’t have to send secondary updates to my prof when new data/insights come in 5 minutes after I shoot off a big update. Thanks LH! (Or well, uh, Gina I mean

kureshii

User comment: Comment from razordu30

Watch out with this - the timestamping gets a bit dicey, as Annie noted.

To test this I composed a deferred email at 4:00pm, set my local clock to 5:00, deferred the email to 5:30, and hit send and set my system clock back to normal.

I copied the email to myself, a coworker on the same mailserver and my gmail account.

Different timestamps all over the place - my sent timestamp, his received timestamp, gmail’s timestamp, etc.

I am not completely sold on this.

razordu30

User comment: Comment from mtaylor924

@anniekate76: Good point, I ran into the same problems when I was using Outlook/Exchange at a previous job!

I used this tip primarily to batch send a set of weekly emails for an entire semester at once…but if the recipients don’t keep their inboxes clean, the “new” message that got delivered today would show as sent 3 months ago, and they never saw it!

Any way to have Outlook change the “sent” date/time to when it’s actually sent, and not when it’s placed into the outbox?

mtaylor924

User comment: Comment from TechHit

This type of rule can also be used to give you a safety net of being able to change your mind after clicking “Send”. See this article for details.

TechHit

User comment: Comment from akishore

No this is an amazing tip! I read this on a different blog many months ago…but it’s ABSOLUTELY necessary if you work in an office environment!

It’s a life saver when you press the Send button in Outlook when you didn’t want to send that message! Either you wrote something that you would regret later on or it was to the completely wrong person.

Definitely something I have done several times!

akishore

User comment: Comment from anniekate76

Yeah, but the person who gets the message still sees the time you actually wrote it when you do the “do not deliver before” option. I learned this because I was writing an email to a coworker at 2 AM and I didn’t want him to realize I was up at such a crazy hour, so I set it to deliver at 7, but he could still see that I wrote it at 2 AM.

anniekate76

User comment: Comment from wickedcupofjoe

Excellent! I send an email out every Monday to co-workers that this will help with!

wickedcupofjoe

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