How to Make Emails Delivery Delay Schedule in MS Outlook?

If you have subscribed with newsletters then you will obtain updated news in your main inbox folder daily. This is generated by the publisher they create a new one day before and send it immediately, but it does not deliver at that time because they have set the rule in Outlook. It means the news will be delivered to everyone at a particular time. That’s the reason you get updated news every morning in your mailbox area. However, if you want to create such kind of rule like making a delay or schedule an email in Outlook then follow the given below instructions carefully.

Note: You can set this rule only for single as well as multiple email messages in Outlook.

Make Delayed Delivery for Single Mail in Microsoft Outlook

• Go to the File Menu >> New mail >> Mail message.
• Choose Option from the menu bar and then click on Delay delivery from the standard bar.

• A property pop will appear.
• Click on the check box area: Do not deliver before and choose your final delivery Data and Time from the two drop-down lists.
• Click on the close button.

Steps to Delay or Schedule an Email in Outlook

• Open Microsoft Outlook.
• Click on the “Tools” menu and then “Rules/Alerts”.

• Click on “New Rule” under the “E-mail Rules” tab.

• A “rule wizard pop-up box” will appear on your screen.
• Click on “Start from a blank rule”.
• Select “Apply rule on the check after sending” and then “click on Next to continue”.

• “Select conditions” according to your need or leave all unchecked and then click on the “Next” button.

• In this Wizard, check the defer delivery by a number of minutes box. Under Step 2, click on a word (a number of) with an underline.
• “Type your ideal time” or choose it from the “up and down button”.
• Click “Ok” and turn to the “previous wizard”.
• Click “Next”.

• Select your “Exception” or leave them “unchecked”, then click on “Next”.

• “Name the rule in Step 1” and check the “Turn on this rule box”, then click “Finish”.

• Now all new messages will be “delayed 5 min to deliver”.

Conclusion

The above blog holds a complete solution of making delay or schedule an email in Outlook. Users can set this set of rules for single as well as multiple email messages in MS Outlook.