Adding a Send Delay to outgoing emails on the New Outlook

Anonymous
2023-10-04T13:36:08+00:00

Hello!

On the "Old version" of Outlook, it was relatively straightforward to add a send delay of, for example, 1 minute to outgoing emails, where the email is automatically stored in "Outgoing messages" for 1 minute before it is sent to the recipient. During this time you could make any changes to the email - re-read it, check and correct potential typos, etc. This could be done via a custom rule.

However, in the "New Outlook", this functionality appears to be removed. I was able to find an option to "Undo Send" for 10 seconds after send-out, however, 10 seconds isn't a lot of time.

Is it possible to add a send-delay to outgoing email in the "New Outlook" or was this functionality removed from the software?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-07-02T15:51:28+00:00

    This is potentially the ONLY thing preventing me from migrating to M365 at work right now. That delay send is a Heaven send. MS Product Team: do you know there are literally Harvard Business articles on the value of this feature? This isn't an edge case, it's highly utilized.

    https://hbr.org/2015/07/prevent-email-horror-with-a-2-minute-send-delay

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-18T14:05:57+00:00

    Tell me you didn't read the assignment without telling me you didn't read the assignment.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-28T11:54:02+00:00

    Pretty sure this is just a complaints placebo, we all get to feel like we have a forum for enhancement requests while Microsoft get to say they have a forum for listening to their user community (while actively ignoring it).

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-28T11:43:03+00:00

    Thank you for your support one wonders though why we have a Microsoft Community as they do not seem to read our requests, let alone respond to them. This matter has been going on for nearly two years and we are still no further forward.

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