Comments on: Use Outlook Rules to Prevent "Oh No!" After Sending Emails

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:35:02 +0000

Thanks very much for the guide, great help

By: Murali Krishnan

Murali Krishnan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:24:53 +0000

First hit I got from google…

Usually my colleagues send “Welcome to party” mails to groups of people from my outlook, when I kept my laptop unlocked. I got so fed up by this. Now I stopped all these non-sense by deferring all mails contains “party”, “pizza” to 120 mins except if the body contains “norule” (a real party).

Thanks a lot.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:42:42 +0000

Ok, but HOW do I set up an EXCEPTION using priority or a key word in the email’s body? Thanks.

By: Scott Ford

Scott Ford — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:46:52 +0000

Great trick!!!

By: Nick Thanopoulos

Nick Thanopoulos — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:24:51 +0000

Great tip, although a little too late for me.

I just sent out a mail that embarrased my entire firm.

I wish I had seen this first.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:29:55 +0000

To allow “emergency” email to go out immediately, add an exception of your choice. Mine is
“Unless Priority is “High”"
or
“Unless subject contains ‘–>’

By: Kevin L

Kevin L — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:46:26 +0000

@Peter Willis

I thought of the same thing on reading that statement.

From personal experience, it works the same way in Outlook 2002 (XP) and Outlook 2000

By: Peter Wills

Peter Wills — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:05:49 +0000

“Now when you send messages, you’ll notice that they sit in the Outbox for a few minutes. If you want to stop a message from going out, your best bet is to just delete it from the Outbox, but you could attempt to just fix the mistake and then resend.”

The above concluding statement concerns me coming from a site such as this. If you want to change the message to correct an error simply open it from the Outbox before the delay expires. While you have it opened to amend it, it will NOT be sent. When you click send after you have made your corrections it will go back to the Outbox and the preset delay period will start again. I know this works because I have done it in Outlook 2007. I don’t know about earlier versions.

By: sankar.s

sankar.s — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:32:29 +0000

Thank you very much friends, this could save us from some unwanted future
actions as well as allow us to delete, when we think to stop the message
after sending.

Sankar.S

By: Aswin

Aswin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:55:12 +0000

Before starting to write the e-mail body, I usually add a junk name “zldkf” in the To: address bar. After finishing the mail and on clicking Send, Outlook would give the “wrong email recipient” error. This would give some extra seconds for me to remove the junk name, and in the process of doing that, I might notice some foolish mistake I had done. So simple way to buy time post-Send !!