How to Delay Delivery for All Messages in New Outlook (Outlook Version 1.2023.607.100)?

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Before switching to New Outlook (Outlook Version 1.2023.607.100) I had delayed the sending of all messages by one minute. On New Outlook I can't find that option anymore. I tried to create a rule but "defer delivery by a number of minutes" isn't an option in the dropdown list of actions anymore. Same with creating a quick step.

Under Settings>>Mail>>Compose and Reply it allows you to "undo send" for up to 10 seconds and says "Messages can be canceled for up to 10 seconds. You can choose how long Outlook will wait to send your messages" - but I can't find where to do that.

Dan Dietiker 495 Reputation points

2023-08-09T13:24:33.34+00:00

Microsoft... PLEASE add this Delay feature back for ALL Mesages. The whole point is to be able to delay EVERY time in case you made a mistake or a new email comes into the inbox that counters your message. a 5-10 minute delay on ALL messages sent is NEEDED.
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Caroline Jeannerat 215 Reputation points

2023-09-01T08:37:45.5433333+00:00

I fully support this. Microsoft cannot possibly expect me to go set the delay for every single email, every single time. Why do you take away features that are absolutely essential to working life?
Fabio Scartoni Avellar Fonseca 195 Reputation points

2023-09-19T15:54:57.6633333+00:00

Same here, guys. This feature is life saving. I cannot keep the new outlook without it.
C Eby 155 Reputation points

2023-09-26T17:52:11.7433333+00:00

Ditto. Was just trying the New Outlook and will need to ditch it because it does not have this feature. Please make this happen MS.
Shawn Antonelli 55 Reputation points

2023-10-09T03:20:03.9733333+00:00

There is so much to not like about the "New Outlook" as per all of the prior without this feature I cannot use the tool but there is also the lack of multiple line previews instead forcing onto a single line or to use the reading pane to take up even more valuable real estate on the screen. The instant open on selection of any item... the list is long and the product is useless to me in it's current format.
Bobby 50 Reputation points

2023-10-13T17:21:54.32+00:00

Please add this back in. In old outlook I had a 1 minute delay set for all emails going out. I cannot tell you how many times this saved me headache or just fat fingering sending an email.

I'm going to switch back to Old Outlook until this is added to New Outlook. I'm assuming Microsoft has data on how many people use this feature? How could you miss this? No hard feeling, please add it back. Thank you.
André Bisig 40 Reputation points

2023-10-23T11:07:41.3866667+00:00

Well that was one of the most important features to delay all messages. For me this means rolling back to the "older" version that supports this function for the meantime. Please update when it's implemented in new version.
Jurgensen, Patricia [JJCUS] 45 Reputation points

2023-11-16T15:34:09.9666667+00:00

YES PLEASE BRING BACK THE DELAY ALL EMAILS BY X MIN RULE!!!!! This is terrible that you removed this rule!!!! I know so many people that use this and with good reason!
Stephen Mathew James 65 Reputation points

2023-12-06T15:07:32.18+00:00

Whenever Microsoft makes a "New" version of one of its products, I wonder if anyone in their development team goes by the old saying "If it ain't broken, don't fix it.". I try my best to be onboard every time a new UI or software version comes out but this new Outlook leaves less to be desired. While some of the UI changes are alright (not great; just alright), so many essential features have been removed. Delay Delivery for All Messages is one of those. The number of times it has saved me from embarrassment cannot be counted. And now Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on it. Please bring back the feature. This is a much-needed feature.

Update - New Outlook is crappy. I'm sorry but Microsoft - y'all got it wrong. Clearly either get rid of your feedback group or start listening to the voices of the real customers. Reverting to the "old" functioning feature-rich Outlook.
Ilan S 20 Reputation points

2023-12-13T12:25:23.0966667+00:00

Come on MS developers. What's the big deal? The feature is already in place, so coding a default to all takes you so long??
Jannick Splitthoff 15 Reputation points

2023-12-19T13:34:06.21+00:00

Is this even real? How does one leave out fetaures of a running system?

Unacceptable.
Mongalore 15 Reputation points

2023-12-28T14:16:55.1433333+00:00

Please add email send delay as an option.
Cooke, Robert 10 Reputation points

2024-01-17T20:20:55.4066667+00:00

agree need the delay email rule. Also, the snooze button for meetings is not actually working. I hit snooze 5 mins before meeting and it pops up and reminds me every 5 mins
arthur oppenheimer 15 Reputation points

2024-01-20T14:38:32.4333333+00:00

This change/deletion of the ability to delay all messages is totally ludicrous. I don't want to have to do this individually for every single message - I will now switch back to the old outlook. PLEASE Microsoft reinstall this feature
ClippyZ 10 Reputation points

2024-02-07T21:19:33.77+00:00

So incredibly disappointed this feature - delay sending all messages - isn't supported in the new outlook. It's a dealbreaker! Back to the old outlook, despite some of the other positive features in the new version. This has saved me way too many times
van Zee, Pieter 10 Reputation points

2024-02-07T23:27:24.9+00:00

Fully agree. The "defer delivery by a number of minutes" feature for email is essential. Rely on it every day. Can't move to the new version without it.
Jurgensen, Patricia [JJCUS] 45 Reputation points

2024-02-08T14:33:50.54+00:00

Hello Microsoft... Please address this issue. I have been using delay on all emails by one minute for so many years. Why would you take this away? Do you read these forums? Please fix.
Lucio Urbano 5 Reputation points

2024-02-08T19:34:41.8466667+00:00

In the previous version we had the feature to advanced create rules that now is much more simpler. Having the ability of creating a rule would address this delay issue. In my case, I´d like to create a delay in every single message, waiting 2min (not only 10sec). It has saved my life multiple times..
Samantha Robinson 20 Reputation points

2024-02-15T05:33:40.0633333+00:00

I think I'll have to go back to the old version without the ability for the 1 minute delay!
Patrick Leser 10 Reputation points

2024-02-21T15:30:01.14+00:00

Parroting another user, I fully support reimplementing the email send delay feature. This feature is so fundamental, it shows a profound disconnect with your end users. Why do you take away features that are absolutely essential to working life?
MK8 LFS 5 Reputation points

2024-03-01T05:23:27.16+00:00

I absolutely require this feature. "Undo Send" up to 10 seconds is akin to the rather basic Gmail Labs option in Gmail, whereas the previous Outlook Rule to Delay Send by X minutes was fully bespoke.
SolarDawn 5 Reputation points

2024-03-06T09:25:43.5966667+00:00

This and SO MANY other things are a downgrade on the new Outlook. My font changes even within the same email thread. You can no longer sort by flagged emails. You can't add a link to a network folder - only URL links. So much of the good bits of functionality in the previous version of Outlook is gone in this new version. Absolutely bonkers.
Carlos Meca 5 Reputation points

2024-03-19T17:13:12.97+00:00

please make this option available. Will revert back to old outlook until it is
Jurgensen, Patricia [JJCUS] 45 Reputation points

2024-03-29T13:55:24.6633333+00:00

Microsoft, how can you be so _tupid? Hundreds of us are asking for this feature back!!!!
Monika 0 Reputation points

2024-04-03T09:50:57.9+00:00

"Schedule send" for EACH and EVERY email is not what the option of "defer delivery" is for. Bring this option to new outlook please. Each sent email will wait in the Outbox for the selected amount of time (1 minute in my case). We need this option for safety, easy communication, clarity and avoidance of redundant emails. Thank you.
James Collins 0 Reputation points

2024-04-05T15:02:50.8266667+00:00

Ditto for me, too important a feature to leave out. Can't switch until it's added back.
Panos 0 Reputation points

2024-04-05T20:01:21.9933333+00:00

Gmail has it as a default feature that allows you to delay sending for up to 5 minutes...
Yates, Sean 0 Reputation points

2024-04-18T12:49:07.1366667+00:00

I've been delaying all emails one minute for years. 10 seconds simply is not enough time. Please either allow delay rules to be as they were in the past or increase the standard allowable delay beyond 10 seconds - it should be minutes.
Samantha Robinson 20 Reputation points

2024-04-18T22:13:41.03+00:00

Me too (1 minute for years) and totally agree. This is madness. What happened to taking into account customer feedback and customer experience design? How many people said "nah - don't need the delay all messages functionality"?!

This tool is for the customer and who in their right minds made the decision to remove this key functionality? Bonkers. Microsoft, this is going backwards not forward. AND the 1 minute is a risk mitigant in this age of doing everything at speed - please bring it back. The impact of not is lower adoption of the new Outlook - most features for which are great, but the risk of sending an incomplete email, or saying something I don't want to say and not being able to "unring that bell" is too great. so I changed back to the classic Outlook some time ago and won't be moving forward with the new (unless you get rid of the classic Outlook) until that feature is there.
Atiat, Hadj 0 Reputation points

2024-04-24T12:15:15.1166667+00:00

Same here.

I used to have a 2 minutes delay, 10 seconds is not enough.
CARLA BARROS 0 Reputation points

2024-04-26T11:43:33.96+00:00

Could you please bring back the feature that allows delaying emails by a certain amount of time? The feature was really useful, and its removal has caused inconvenience to many users.
Stefan Blom 2,081 Reputation points MVP

2024-04-26T12:45:33.27+00:00

Could you please bring back the feature that allows delaying emails by a certain amount of time? The feature was really useful, and its removal has caused inconvenience to many users.

Carla,

In the new Outlook for Windows, there is an option to schedule a message to be sent later. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/delay-or-schedule-sending-email-messages-in-outlook-for-windows-026af69f-c287-490a-a72f-6c65793744ba .
Dr. Yang 0 Reputation points

2024-04-30T12:36:13.2666667+00:00

This feature needs to be brought back. We cannot set a schedule after every email--highly inconvenient. Thanks.
Kim, Kyungrok 0 Reputation points

2024-05-02T13:40:57.5533333+00:00

one more comment here. in order to try co-pilot functionality, my outlook had to be changed to the new outlook, and very disappointed that I am unable to set the rule for delay delivery of all outgoing mails for 1 min,,,,,, needs help and feature update from MSFT.

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Faery Fu-MSFT 17,031 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-06-20T06:21:14.81+00:00

Hi @LBL ,

Welcome to our forum!

In the New Outlook for Windows, you can delay the delivery of individual messages. Just select the dropdown next to the Send button and select Schedule send.

However, schedule sending for all emails is currently not supported in the New Outlook for Windows. As a workaround, you can switch back to the classic Outlook at any time by clicking the toggle button in the top right corner of the window.

I submitted your feedback on the dedicated portal via the link below: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/47b80343-320f-ee11-a81c-000d3a7a48db

Many features of our current products are designed and upgraded based on customers’ feedback. With requirements like this increase, the problem may well be released in the future.

You can mark my reply as an answer, so that other users in the forum who have similar problems can also vote.

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7 people found this answer helpful.
Joni O'Neal-Dischner 40 Reputation points

2023-06-22T16:39:53.1166667+00:00

I, too, had a delay on all my outgoing mail (3 minutes), and it is very disheartening that this feature (which saved me many embarrassing situations) is no longer available. Will this feature be supported soon, or is it being eliminated permanently? It's a dreadful inefficiency to create a custom send time for individual emails.

Serge Wallagh 55 Reputation points

2023-06-22T20:14:49.4466667+00:00

Me to: this DELAY all messages was a killer fucntion. Using it for years. Why did Microsoft delete this?

I DO not think I will beusing the new OUtlook till this is fixed.

AndyC 50 Reputation points

2023-06-23T03:46:36.0533333+00:00

Yeah, me too!

I am sorely missing this feature.

But at the time of writing, I'm the only person to upvote the feature request in the feedback portal? Please upvote, or we might not get it back! https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/47b80343-320f-ee11-a81c-000d3a7a48db

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Barden, Rachel 50 Reputation points

2023-07-19T12:37:40.6966667+00:00

I agree, delayed send is a lifesaver. Holding outgoing emails for 10 seconds barely gives the user enough time to cancel the email even if they realize they want to cancel it immediately after hitting send, but usually it takes a minute or so before I realize I sent an email with wrong information.

Nicholas Olson 40 Reputation points

2023-08-18T01:50:17.5+00:00

Please make sure to include this feature. I've stopped using new outlook solely because there is no option to create a rule to delay ALL messages.

cheria 20 Reputation points

2023-08-24T12:38:24.72+00:00

i too have the same problem. it is a useful feature which has saved me many a times.

Dan Dietiker 495 Reputation points

2023-09-19T15:57:22.9666667+00:00

Doing this every time for each individual email is stupid and does not meet the true need of this feature!

TT Jansen 15 Reputation points

2023-10-04T17:11:10.69+00:00

The answer that Faery supplied does not appear on my Desktop app of the New Outlook, which is what I prefer to use as it allows me to connect my email account for my business, which is not a yahoo, outlook or gmail account.

I can see the option in Outlook online.

So, this still needs to be added to the Desktop app to make this a viable solution for small businesses.

Nicolaas Ooms 20 Reputation points

2023-10-26T13:44:34.5566667+00:00

I also miss the delay feature in the new outlook.

Frampton, Margaret 30 Reputation points

2023-11-06T19:27:28.0433333+00:00

Adding my vote to the pile - I just want my outbox back. It's not even that i might send a mistake, its just that after i send an email, sometimes I want to add something to it so that I don't have to send another one and possibly break the email chain.

Look and feel stuff, I can get used to. Even messing around with the tasks list- fine, I can adapt. But this is a change that I do not welcome - setting a delay for every single email individually is simply not a viable workaround.

Stephen Mathew James 65 Reputation points

2023-12-12T15:26:48.3966667+00:00

"... Many features of our current products are designed and upgraded based on customers’ feedback."

Bruh... 🤭 You have to be kidding. Who? WHO?! Who in the world gave feedback that the Delay Delivery feature had to be removed? 🤦🏽‍♂️

Deanr181 15 Reputation points

2023-12-19T06:09:36.2433333+00:00

There is no drop down menu next to the Send Button. How do I schedule the sending of emails now?

Merrily McDonald 20 Reputation points

2024-01-13T09:29:14.2633333+00:00

I work through the night and NEED to delay delivery of almost every single email - WHY WAS THE OPTION FORGOTTEN????

mstrom 25 Reputation points

2024-01-17T20:26:47.8633333+00:00

I won't be using the new outlook until this feature is put back in.

Dan Dietiker 495 Reputation points

2024-01-17T20:35:30.7033333+00:00

PLEASE ADD THE DELAY FEATURE BACK.

Dan Dietiker 495 Reputation points

2024-01-17T20:36:17.4033333+00:00

PLEASE ADD THE DELAY FEATURE BACK.

Pedro Roxo Pereira 15 Reputation points

2024-01-22T16:07:31.78+00:00

Please restore feature. Your solution is not the same thing. Going back to the old version.

Yewliang Woo 15 Reputation points

2024-01-29T20:07:49.09+00:00

Arrgh... I am switching back to Classic Outlook because if this. Else I like the new UI, but this delay x mins before sending on every mail is a must have. Upvote to bring this back. It has saved my many many times from a lot of potentially harmful, and certainly embarrasing situations!

Tracy H. Schwind 15 Reputation points

2024-02-01T23:04:48.2433333+00:00

I need delay back for all emails. That's a huge disappointment to not have that option. 10 seconds is worthless and may as well not even exist. Who thought that made sense?

Lando Martiniani 25 Reputation points

2024-02-06T06:49:19.1766667+00:00

Why is this being marked as "Accepted answer"? Only 3 people have found this helpful. This is not a solution, only a workaround. It's a manual effort on our part and not what's required. Please, just extend the automated delay from 10 seconds to longer timelines.

Ali Simpson 15 Reputation points

2024-02-14T16:41:43.8633333+00:00

I started using the New Outlook and loved it! Until I realized I can't set a blanket Delay rule for all emails I send. This function is absolutely needed, forever using the old version now.

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Brian Hamilton 15 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-02-21T13:14:28.48+00:00

Please bring back this feature. why would you remove it?

Guido van der Harst 15 Reputation points

2024-02-21T14:01:19.67+00:00

You really made a mistake by taking this option out. Deferring delivery of messages is key. It happens too often I have to change a message already sent because of new insights or forgetting to attach a document.

Pieter Niemeijer 15 Reputation points

2024-03-04T10:06:11.54+00:00

I (and many of my colleagues) will switch back to the "old" outlook just to be able to use this feature. Please let me know whenever this features is updated in the "new" outlook so I can switch.

Samantha Robinson 20 Reputation points

2024-03-05T23:01:01.73+00:00

Microsoft, there has been a lot of feedback and judging by the fact that your message is from June 2023, you aren't listening to your customers! Please add the feature back in - making this happen for individual emails rather than as an inherent rule for those that want to use it, is not useful.

Sam Gibbins 10 Reputation points

2024-03-06T11:23:46.8+00:00

Deferring delivery of messages is key. Please add this feature back

Peter Modestou 10 Reputation points

2024-03-21T09:34:00.6+00:00

Well I'm just not going to use the new system until I can use the delay to all emails. Pretty useless to me if this feature is not included. Other than that, I like the look of the new system... MS you just need to fix the missing feature!

John Leonard 15 Reputation points

2024-03-26T11:37:27.5866667+00:00

I will be restoring the old version. I prefer to hold all my outgoing emails for several minutes, permitting me a chance to catch my breath and reread what I wrote. It has saved me many times from a typo-ridden, grammatically-poor, content-insensitive email from going into the wild where it can be seen forever. While AI may help with typos and grammar, it can't help with insensitive content. But a PAUSE can!

Jurgensen, Patricia [JJCUS] 45 Reputation points

2024-03-29T13:58:42.5833333+00:00

Please put this feature back! why would you remove a feature that many use?

Ben Hosford 5 Reputation points

2024-04-04T09:05:31.0866667+00:00

Agreed with the growing number of comments. This is a vital part of my working life and I will go back to Old Outlook to use the existing feature there and urge Microsoft to listen and simply add back something that was already there and in high use.

Lando Martiniani 25 Reputation points

2024-05-02T07:33:53.3666667+00:00

@Stefan Blom also, can please remove this as the Accepted Answer? This is obviously not even an acceptable workaround... you can't go from having something automated to doing it manually on every single message you send, that's apples and oranges. Your answer is much more acceptable.

Stefan Blom 2,081 Reputation points MVP

2024-05-02T07:52:25.9833333+00:00

Stefan Blom also, can please remove this as the Accepted Answer? This is obviously not even an acceptable workaround... you can't go from having something automated to doing it manually on every single message you send, that's apples and oranges. Your answer is much more acceptable.

As far as I know, only the original poster can remove the Accepted Answer "vote." I suppose that the forum moderators can do it as well, but I don't know who moderate the Q&A forum at the moment...

Sean Patterson 0 Reputation points

2024-05-06T13:03:35.46+00:00

Not helpful. This wastes so much of my time!!!!
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Gregory Guthrie 0 Reputation points

2023-10-24T02:53:41.1433333+00:00

So many other things missing - no-scrollable favorites, reordering of folders, ...

Ugh!
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Tz 0 Reputation points

2024-03-29T07:16:31.5433333+00:00

Sometimes i really don't understand the people who make "upgrades" how they miss essential things and all the layers of approval sleep thru it; not just in MS all kinds of business.

For the rest of the folks here's my solution:

file / rules & alerts / new rule / apply rule on messages SEND / on this computer only / defer delivery by a number of minutes / click on the minutes 1 min is minimum

it will work ONLY on the device you set the rule. If you do it on your laptop and then send from your phone, guess what - phone won't delay

best
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Pieter Niemeijer 15 Reputation points

2024-04-02T08:18:48.5133333+00:00

Hi TZ, tnx for your comment and i wish that was true, this indeed works for the "old" outlook. for the "new" version there is no option to select "apply rule on messages send"
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Aris Lopez 0 Reputation points

2024-04-01T14:47:53.2566667+00:00

Hello! Has the delay delivery function been fixed yet? I desperately need this function as it helps me double-check my work for any mistakes.

PLEASE restore this feature!!!
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Maciej KOROTKI 0 Reputation points

2024-04-10T13:53:37.2033333+00:00

Please restore this feature.

Urgently needed.
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How to Delay Delivery for All Messages in New Outlook (Outlook Version 1.2023.607.100)?

PLEASE ADD THE DELAY FEATURE BACK.

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