send email after some delay

[kalos]

hello!!

in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, I want two buttons to appear in the 'compose email' window:
"Send"
and
"Send after some delay" (the delay can be a default delay or I can customize it in each email I send)

is it possible?

thanks!

[Deozaan]

This probably isn't very helpful, but Gmail can do something like this already. It gives you a few seconds to "Undo Send" in case you want to change something.



You can find/enable it in Gmail Labs from the Settings page.

[kalos]

the problem is that I am limited to Outlook :S

[Stoic Joker]

Unsend only works if the receiving server wants to let it (most don't...). So unless Gmail is intentionally tarpit-ing their outbount mail...that "feature" is a crap shoot.

[skwire]

http://www.howtogeek...fter-sending-emails/

Might be worth a look...

[kalos]

http://www.howtogeek...fter-sending-emails/

Might be worth a look...

-skwire (January 03, 2012, 02:05 PM)

thanks, however I already know this and the problem I encounter is actually this:


I want to choose each time, by clicking the appropriate button ("Send now", "Send after 5 minutes", "Send after minutes you specify")

maybe an add-on exists?

[Ath]

This Office.com article might help

[Deozaan]

Unsend only works if the receiving server wants to let it (most don't...). So unless Gmail is intentionally tarpit-ing their outbount mail...that "feature" is a crap shoot.

-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2012, 01:55 PM)

When the feature is enabled, Gmail intentionally delays the sending of the e-mail for a few seconds.

[Stoic Joker]

Unsend only works if the receiving server wants to let it (most don't...). So unless Gmail is intentionally tarpit-ing their outbount mail...that "feature" is a crap shoot.

-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2012, 01:55 PM)

When the feature is enabled, Gmail intentionally delays the sending of the e-mail for a few seconds.

-Deozaan (January 04, 2012, 12:46 PM)

Which loosely qualifies as tar-pitting. But OP mentioned they're using Outlook which Google may not honor requests from. Historically unsend is iffy outside of a closed system because the receiving server can (and typically does) refuse the delete request.

[Deozaan]

Unsend only works if the receiving server wants to let it (most don't...). So unless Gmail is intentionally tarpit-ing their outbount mail...that "feature" is a crap shoot.

-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2012, 01:55 PM)

When the feature is enabled, Gmail intentionally delays the sending of the e-mail for a few seconds.

-Deozaan (January 04, 2012, 12:46 PM)

Which loosely qualifies as tar-pitting. But OP mentioned they're using Outlook which Google may not honor requests from. Historically unsend is iffy outside of a closed system because the receiving server can (and typically does) refuse the delete request.

-Stoic Joker (January 04, 2012, 04:59 PM)

I'm not really intending on dragging this thread off topic, and you seem much more knowledgeable about this than I am, but I just thought what Google did with Undo Send was to put your mail on a delay timer so that it wasn't sent at all until after the time you had to "Undo Send" had passed. I didn't think it actually sent it immediately and then tried to take it back if you pressed the undo button.

[kalos]

I would still need two buttons  , a "send" and a "send later", is it possible?