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.

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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.com/howto/microsoft-office/use-outlook-rules-to-prevent-oh-no-after-sending-emails/

Might be worth a look...

[kalos]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/use-outlook-rules-to-prevent-oh-no-after-sending-emails/

Might be worth a look...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?