Delayed Send

Have you ever said "ooops" after hitting the "Send" button? This feature will help you set up a “safety net” for the Send button.

Using the delayed send concept makes it so when you hit Send, Outlook automatically retains your message in the Outbox for a short period of time before actually sending it. This delay allows you the ability to go to the Outbox to edit a message to fix your "ooops" before the message is sent out.

Setting up delayed send in Outlook 2003 or 2007

• Go to Tools -> Rules and Alerts.
• Click “New Rule”.
• Select “Check messages after sending”.
• Click “Next”, and then click “Next” again.
• When Outlook confirms that you want this rule to apply to every message, click “Yes”.
• Check the box next to “defer delivery by a number of minutes”.
• Click on “a number of” and choose how many minutes by which you want your e-mails to be delayed.
• Click “Finish”.

You are done! During the delay, you can double-click the message at any time to stop it from being sent, make changes and hit Send again (that action will reset the delay as well to give you more time to rethink your modifications).