Sending scheduled email 1

[sarber72]

Is there a way to send emails at a certain time or day using Outlook 2002 v10.4712.4219 SP-2? Not running exchange but would like to have email sent to certain clients on certain days whether in the office or not.

 

[BlueHorizon]

Hi sarber72,
In your New Mail Message, click on Options button and there's a selection for "do not deliver before" with a date selector. The messages stay in your Outbox until the time you specified.

Hope this helps,
BlueHorizon

 

[sarber72]

Exactly what i need. Thanks!

 

[cmeagan656]

I don't know if this is important to you or not but the "sent" time will display as the time you forwarded the message to your outbox NOT the time the message was sent from the outbox.

 

[BlueHorizon]

I tried this using several different email accounts and the time recorded on the email was after the message was snet/forwarded not the time it was originally sent to the Outbox to await delivery.
Best,
BlueHorizon

 

[cmeagan656]

Maybe its different for me because I'm using Outlook 2000 SR-1 and am in an Exchange server environment.

Here's a copy of the header from the test message I sent to my hotmail account.

From: name@xxx.com
To : name@hotmail.com
Subject : Test
Date : Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:57:28 -0700

The internet header is as follows:

MIME-Version: 1.0

Received: from mail.xxx.com ([xx.xx.xxx.xxx]) by mc6-f27.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:05:06 -0700
Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1]by mail.xxx.com with XWall v3.28 ;Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:05:04 -0700
Received: by SERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55)id <VRMQL14Y>; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:05:03 -0700
X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jHVFFayJg7yei+t/NURTqxy
Message-ID: <86A3CBE94BFC7B408EFFB5983A32F28150616D@SERVER>
Deferred-Delivery: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:05:00 -0700
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55)
Return-Path: name@xxx.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Oct 2003 07:05:06.0494 (UTC) FILETIME=[51E91DE0:01C39AC6]


I sent the messages at 23:57:28 on Friday, October 24th with it set not to be delivered before 00:05:04 on Saturday, October 25th. While the internet headers say nothing about the original time sent the Sent: header on the actual message does.

In the internet header notice that it also mentions deferred-delivery.

Cheers.

 

[BlueHorizon]

That's very interesting - Here's my header information. I set it to be deliver after 1 pm. It arrived at 1:04pm as follows:

[start]
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Visser [mailto:kvisser@bluehorizontraining.com]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:04 PM
To: kvisser@bluehorizontraining.com
Subject: testKathy Visser [kvisser@bluehorizontraining.com]

Test 1:00pm??

[end}
Maybe it is the Exchange server that makes it different. I don't work with Exchange.

Best,
BlueHorizon

 

[sarber72]

Thanks to you both! I appreciate the heads up cmeagan656.

sarber72