An Archive Blog by Bob Sutton

Give Yourself Time to Take Back Your Words: How to Delay Outlook Emails After Hitting “Send”

I wrote a recent post called A Cautionary Tale: Watch the Email, about a Dean in Florida who apparently lost his job — in part — because he sent out a very nasty email, which was then leaked to the press.  I talked about a great IT guy I know who has his email set-up to delay emails for a few minutes after hitting the send button — allowing him time to change his mind before it is sent.  His name is Tim Keely and he just sent me an email with a link that explains how to do this in Microsoft Outlook.  It isn’t exactly simple, but I am going to go through the steps anyway as, I confess, there are times when I wish I had taken time to cool-off after hitting the “send” button, and could take back my words. Here are the steps. Thanks Tim!