Jaco van Wilgenburgh - Tapping the Groundswell » Outlook http://www.vanwilgenburgh.nl marketing, online, social media, technology Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:52:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Outlook – Delay your send mail (for impulsive users) http://www.vanwilgenburgh.nl/2009/02/23/outlook-delay-your-send-mail-for-impulsive-users/ http://www.vanwilgenburgh.nl/2009/02/23/outlook-delay-your-send-mail-for-impulsive-users/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:54:56 +0000 Jaco http://www.vanwilgenburgh.nl/?p=102 I’ve been using this for quite some time now, delaying the emails that I send. It has saved me lots of times already: annoyed replies, forgotten attachments, incomplete answers et cetera. If you recognize any of these than this might work for you as well.  I started with a 3 minute delay, but found this was too long. I am now using a 1 minute delay, but play around to see what works for you. (Note: you can also deselect this rule if you want to bypass the delay for a specific email).

Creating the rule in Outlook

Follow this set of clicks to create the rule in outlook, start in the toolbar with Tools then – Rules and Alerts – New Rule – Check Messages after sending – Next – Next – Defer delivery by a number of minutes – click the ‘a number of’ link in the bottom windows – choose the number of minutes you want – click ok – click finish – click ok

Works for you as well? Other Ideas? Let me know!

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