Delay Sending An Email In Outlook

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StevieT

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#303218 25-Jan-2023 09:46

So I looked up the instructions for how to delay the delivery of an email once pressing send in Outlook, as per

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/delay-or-schedule-sending-email-messages-026af69f-c287-490a-a72f-6c65793744ba

I use Outlook for Windows (so not the online version). I'll ensure Outlook is open at the time and there is an Internet connection.

(a) If I set it for 'do not delivery before 27/01/2023 10am', will it send at 10am on Friday?

(b) Is that despite the send/receive 'cycle' set at completing every, I think for me, every 5 minutes (ie Outlook will initiate another send/receive at 10am, even if hasn't been 5 minutes after the last send/receive)?

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#3026875 25-Jan-2023 10:08

From experience, emails are sent immediately if outlook is connected, so it will trigger this at 10am and send it.

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#3026921 25-Jan-2023 11:06

If you are using 365 or Outlook.com as the back end for your email, messages will send from Outlook at 10am Friday. I believe Outlook needs to be open for this to happen.

I've never tested this using POP or IMAP accounts.

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#3026931 25-Jan-2023 11:32

You need to have outlook open on your machine for it to run. I know this because I set up a whole lot of regular reports to go out via email while I was on leave (wthout my laptop). Then I started getting phone calls asking where the reports were ...

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#3032483 6-Feb-2023 14:06

@StevieT how did you get on?

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StevieT

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#3032486 6-Feb-2023 14:09

Yup - managed to set it up to send at the particular time I wanted.

StevieT

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#3056435 30-Mar-2023 10:03

Yeah, some emails aren't sending at the right time (or even upon the time I request automatically). How do I find out what's going on?

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#3056437 30-Mar-2023 10:13

I've never heard of this happening, so I don't have a recommendation.

You are definitely leaving Outlook running? Computer isn't going to sleep?

Other option is to go to Webmail and send the email using the web client if it supports delayed sending. Microsoft 365 support this at https://outlook.office.com (look under the Options tab in the Ribbon menus).

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#3056448 30-Mar-2023 10:36

As far as I can see, auto Send/Receive (e.g. every 10 minutes) will send everything that is in the Outbox, including an email tagged as to be sent at a (later) specific time.

The way to delay any specific emails under all conditions appears to be done using a Rule ... and one specifies the number of minutes of the delay.

See last instruction at THIS.