Comments on: How To Delay Sending A Message In Outlook

By: Gers69

Gers69 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:38:59 +0000

Hi, tried testing this and delayed a message to myself from 11.23 to send at 11.30.
Sure enougth it sat in my Outbaox until the required time but when arrived showed as Sent at 11.30 as well as delivered at 11.30.

Does this mean the comments above have been responded to?
Or is this just a fluke?

By: Bleechy

Bleechy — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:21:00 +0000

This is correct.
The feature that I use in Outlook 2010 is to create a rule: ‘delay send by a number of minutes’.
Furthermore, you could ‘force the send’ in Outlook 2003 by simply clicking send/receive, whereas in Outlook 2010 you can only force the send by making an exception to the rule e.g. ‘High Importance’ tag can be an exception that sends immediately.
This is relatively annoying for some users who use/like the 2003 feature.
Why do Microsoft etc make such short-sighted changes and annoy their loyal customers?

By: Bea

Bea — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:51:00 +0000

How do you make it work on Outlook for Mac?

By: Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:34:00 +0000

One way to get around this in any outlook version is to change your system time. Outlook gets it’s time from whatever time your computer thinks it is. If you have admin rights on your computer you can change the system time, compose and send the message, and then quickly change it back.

You must be quick, however, since your computer’s time must stay syncronized with your network’s primary domain controller (a server) or you will lose your network connection, making it impossible to send email among other things…

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:33:00 +0000

You have to set up the email delay to the desired timestamp AND change your pc’s date and time to the same. When you hit send, the email will be timestamped with your pc’s future date and time, then sit in your outbox until the email delay triggers.

PC time and date => sent timestamp. Email delay => received timestamp. Ideally they should be the same.

Yes, outlook must be open.

Tested in 2003.

By: Danielsydney

Danielsydney — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:42:00 +0000

Do you need to keep your pc and outlook open for this to work?

By: Umberhulk

Umberhulk — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:32:00 +0000

If you have Cached Exchange Mode on (assuming your connected to an Exchange server), it will not send unless the email client is up. Turn Cached mode off, and it’ll send the delayed email regardless.

By: Nobody

Nobody — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:44:00 +0000

You forgot an important point and that is how to get to the Message window. Right click on the message in the Draft folder and choose options.

By: murphy

murphy — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:36:00 +0000

how do you cancel a delay message prior to the scheduled time?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:15:00 +0000

I think the facility was put in in the bad old days when we were all in dial up mode and it kept the call till the phone lines were cheaper and less congested.