Delay SENDING emails in Outlook???

[javeryh]

How do I delay SENDING an email in Microsoft Outlook?  I know I can delay DELIVERING the email until any time I want (Options -> do not deliver before) but the timestamp on the email that the recipient sees will still show when the email was actually sent (not delivered).  Is there a simple script or something I can use to accomplish this?

Thanks!   

[mpm32]

Looking to jet out of work but make someone think you left at your regular time? 

Not sure if you can do that in outlook but take a look at automacrorecorder.  It will let you record screen actions such as mouse moves, key clicks etc.

You could record sending an email and then schedule the macro to run with windows scheduler and a bat file.

You have to leave the email up ready to send and the macro will click send.

[javeryh]

Looking to jet out of work but make someone think you left at your regular time? 

Sort of.  I want to send an email out super late so it looks like I'm burning the midnight oil.   

Can you change your system clock?   

That's so crazy it just might work... although I wonder if MS has it's own internal clock that gets stamped on there AFTER hitting send... 

[JMB]

System clock isn't going to help. If you are sending externally then it will get timestamped by the receiving mail server. If it's internal then it will show the received time correctly in Outlook. You would send it at 9:00 but it would be received at 7.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

You could always change the auto send/recieve time window to something really large. That way it won't actually hit the server until later.


Never tried it, but maybe set that to like 300 minutes or something.

[RayB]

I'm pretty sure sending gets stamped with the system clock in outlook 2003. I recall once having my YEAR wrong and my friends pointed it out, because that email would always be at the top of their inbox due to the date.

I can test. Which version of outlook?

[thatitalian]

Hehehe, I was discussing this the other day funnily enough.

I thought delaying it (as you said) works? My colleague did it and it showed the delayed time, not the actual send time.

[Rick]

I thought delaying it (as you said) works? My colleague did it and it showed the delayed time, not the actual send time.

I believe this to be true, however, your system has to be in Outlook at the time.  There's a different way to schedule the delivery time, but as said above, the time the E-Mail is sent is still visible, and this is because (technically) the E-Mail has been sent, but is being held by the E-Mail Server until the time requested to deliver.  The delayed send feature works by leaving the E-Mail in your Outbox until the time to send it.  I've done this before - once WITHOUT the system being on - and I did not receive the E-Mail until the system was on.  This means, the E-Mail was in my local Outbox - not in the E-Mail Server - and thus, would not be received until my system was on and in Outlook.  When I retried, I left my system on and Outlook loaded, and had the delayed email send me a notice at 1:00 a.m., which I received promptly at 1:00 a.m. on my synchronized BlackBerry.  The date and time showed exactly what I wanted.

Now - at the time I tested this, I believe I was still using Outlook 2003.  The above information might have changed.