Preventing the ‘Oh, no’ moment after sending an email
A simple guide to help you delay sending your emails for 5 minutes after you hit send.
Go to outlook, look at the menu, click tools, from the drop down menu select ‘rules and alerts’. The rules and alerts window will pop up.
Click on ‘New rule’
Then choose “Start from a blank rule”, choose “Check messages after sending”
Then click ‘next’.
Click ‘next’ again on the “Which conditions do you want to check”. A window will pop up
On the next screen, check the box for “defer delivery by a number of minutes”.
Click the Next button, and then give the rule a name
And that should keep you safe from sending emails before you have a chance to correct them.
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Great! I admit, I am such a lame sometimes and fall out to say the “oh, no”. I guess many of us experience this kind of scenario wherein you had the mail sent and realize it was totally a mess, whew! Just a quick question though, can you delete the mail or should only have editing the mistakes as the option?
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You can do either. You either delete the email and start over, or edit it. If you choose to edit the email, it won’t be sent until you press the send button again.
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I’ve been using outlook for a couple of years now and haven’t thought about an option that will let you sending mail to delay, haha. Can this be also applicable to some other web mail service?
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Most email clients will allow you to do this. Which email client do you use, Moria?
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Thanks, but I found how to do this
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