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
    2025-06-02T17:55:31+00:00

    Please add this feature so I can move to the new Outlook! It could be configurable to automatically delay send for a number of minutes or seconds in the Outlook settings menu, ideally per account (make it zero by default). That way you can still accommodate the other features that you have added such as the "send during business hours" by bypassing the settings option when an alternative send schedule is manually chosen.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-15T18:59:32+00:00

    On my version of New Outlook there is no drop-down arrow next to the send button.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-12T23:53:44+00:00

    I also just went back to old Outlook, for this reason. Unfortunately when I switched back, many of my other rules were unable to transfer because of a "server error". It's still worth it to have this functionality again, but echoing the feedback that it's too bad New Outlook didn't have it yet.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-28T12:36:21+00:00

    I am in complete agreement. After 2 years of multiple comments there has not been a single response from Microsoft! What's the point when we are ignored. I am considering a complete switch to Google.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T14:30:46+00:00

    This feature still isn't implemented as of this writing; I am switching back to the old Outlook. I submitted a suggestion.

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