Delay Sending Email

I accidentally forwarded an email message to the wrong person in Gmail yesterday. I noticed just after clicking send … but a millisecond too late to fix it. A great feature for Gmail would be to have a delay the user could set on every sent message in their Outbox - say 1 minute to 5 minutes, that would allow users time to stop outbound messages.

Currently if you are using Outlook then this is possible. Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) will allow you to set up a “Rule” to delay messages for whatever time period you need. This will give you a chance to open it and change messages before they are sent.

* Open Outlook, click on START, All Programs, Microsoft Office, Outlook.
* Click on TOOLS, Rules & Alerts.
* Click on New Rule “Start from a blank rule”.
* Click in Step 1 box, “Check message after sending”.
* Next, click on “On this machine only”.
* Next, Click in Step 1 box, “Defer delivery by a number of minutes”.
* Click in Step 2 box, “a number of” enter the number of minutes.
* Click on OK, click on Finish.

If you have set the Defer delivery by 1 minute and when you click on Send, your message will be held for one minute before being sent. If you realize there is something that needed to be changed, you just click on the Outbox, then click on the message to open, make any changes and click on send again. You will have another one minute, before the message will be sent. This procedure may save you some embarrassing moments.