A Safety Net for the Send Button

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

William Baucom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:00:00 GMT

I am using Outlook 2002. I can't get it to send after a delay. It waits until I hit send/receive or until the timed send/receive triggers.

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Geoff — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:48 GMT

For balance between delayed send and ability to send immediately (and easily), I have found the following settings to be best: Outlook Options>Mail Setup tab> uncheck Send Immediately When Connected. Then, on same dialog (Mail Setup tab), click Send/Receive..> check on Schedule an Automatic Send/Receive Every [10] Minutes. With these settings, when afterthought occurs, I can usually rescue a msg from Outbox before it is sent. Yet, when I want a msg sent immediately, after sending the single msg itself, I simply hit main Send/Receive button in Outlook to empty the Outbox.

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Kamran Ahmed — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:51:39 GMT

how do i set the defer time to more than 120 minutes because 120 minutes is a little less for me

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Pirx — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:40:30 GMT

Hi Ryan, the only COM add-ins listed by System Information are SharePoint server ones. Oh well... Regards,

Pirx

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

outblog — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:53:21 GMT

Prix: Do you have any 3rd party Outlook add-ins installed? The behavior your seeing is not expected, and it sounds like something is modifying messages that you select in Outlook and therefore the item is losing its submitted status.

--Ryan

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Pirx — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:37:50 GMT

@Ryan: thanks for the hint, but nope, my preview pane is hidden for Outbox. Maybe it's some other internal component that marks the message read in the background... I can see the sent timestamp only for a second or so when entering the Outbox. That's a real bummer, you know... Pirx

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Jason — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:19:54 GMT

@Ray On my system it does not appear to be a clock delay, but is in fact an actual 60-second delay. If I send it at 2:17:30, the message sits in my Outbox till 2:18:37. If I send it at 2:18:50 it sits in my Outbox till 2:19:57. In no case can I get it to send in less than 65 seconds or more than about 70 seconds, no matter what part of the minute I hit send. I made my "exception" rule so that the rule won't fire off if the word "sendnow" is in the address. Then if I want to send now I'll simply bcc sendnow@mydomain.com and the message goes out immediately.

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

outblog — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:25:21 GMT

Prix: I believe the issue with the item not sending that you mentioned is a known issue if you have the reading pane enabled in the Outbox folder. If you turn off the reading pane in that folder (which is the default), then Outlook will process the item as expected and send the message as expected. Ryan, Outlook PM

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Stefan — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:26:37 GMT

@ Andy Brauninger: Nice tips on this blog. I will definitely subscribe to the RSS feed :-). @ Pirx: Thanks for these additional tips. Very welcome!

re: A Safety Net for the Send Button

Pirx — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:15:51 GMT

EdwardL, please see the second bullet in my comment above: * This rule unfortunately will make you re-write your message if Outlook works in Exchange mode *and* you have to re-visit the message in the Outbox folder. As soon as you enter Outbox, message's "sent" timestamp is reset to "None", and there is no way I can find to re-send the message. I have to manually put the content into another reply, and submit it all over again. So, it works, but not so conveniently as in the normal POP3 mode. Pirx