Microsoft Outlook Tip - How To Stop Sending Incomplete Emails And Save Embarrassment

How many times have you send a partially composed mail or missed to attach a required document and realized after couple seconds that that you clicked on Send button by mistake? Almost all the email users would have come across this type of embarrassing situations at least once.
Microsoft Outlook has a nice feature which allows email users to recover from this type of mistakes and take appropriate actions to rectify them. Using a "Defer" rule in Microsoft Outlook we can pause all the mail delivery for few minutes after clicking the Send button. If we realize the mistake in the mail before the deferred time we can correct it and prevent an embarrassing situation.
After configuring the Defer rule (see the steps below to configure) all the sent mails will sit in Outbox for a few minutes before delivering to the recipients. If we want to stop the message from going out we can delete it from Outbox. Follow these steps to create the Defer rule

1. Follow the menu "Tools-->Rules and Alerts..." and select "New Rule..." to create a new rule

2. Choose the option "Check messages after sending" available in "Start from a blank rule" template section and click next

3. Click on the Next again to skip the wizard step "Which condition(s) do you want to check?" and a message box will be prompted with text "This rule will be applied to every message you send. Is this correct?". Select Yes.

4. On the next screen choose the option "defer delivery by a number of minutes", and then click on "a number of" and change the defer minutes to 3 minutes You can adjust this value to whatever you would like to) and click on next .

5. Again click on Next button to skip the wizard step "Are there any exceptions?" and give a name to this rule.

6. Specify any name of your choice and click on Finish to complete the rule definition.
That's all. From now onward all the mails will pause few minutes in Outbox and you will get time to correct mistakes

There is also one more feature

There is another feature in MS Outlook whereby one can "RECALL" the message
sent. though this is not a cent-percent accurate option but most of the times it
works. This works only if the recipient has not opened the email and u can get
it deleted from his inbox.

This is how u have to go about
it-:

On realizing a mistake in ur email sent, open the email from
your "sent items"

then go to the Actions Menu on the top.

Select the option of "Recall this message".
u have a
choice either to delete the message or delete and replace with a corrected one.

Thanks,

vijju