Scheduling an email SEND time and date...

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George

Am using MS Office/Outlook 2002. Just purchased the upgrade to
Office/Outlook 2003.

Will either of these allow an email to be "scheduled" for sending at a
future time and date? That is, I can create the email now, then tell it to
"send" at 9am tomorrow morning.

Is it correct to assume that
1) it would look at the system clock (9am) to see when the time occurs, so
the system date/clock must be correct. 2) even though I have an "always on"
DSL connection, Outlook must be OPEN (displayed on the monitor) for it to be
able to send...or is Outlook running in the background and therefore the PC
can only have the desktop up, and can be "sleep" also?

Thanks,
George
 
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Roady [MVP]

First set the option
Then send the message; it will hang in your Outbox now
Leave Outlook open (system time and date must be correct indeed)
Make sure you have Automatic Send/Receive enabled.
The message will be send with the first Automatic Send/Receive after the
time specified in the e-mail message

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3
 
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George

Thanks Robert, works great.
One more...there's a checkbox option in there for:

[X] This message expires at [6/26/04 5:00pm]

I wondered what the point of this is...if I make it expire let's say 15
minutes after the SEND time, it grays the subject header and draws a line
thru it, but what's the purpose?

Thanks
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

It means the message no longer has any relevance or importance. Let's say
it is a reminder that you have a meeting coming up in 10 minutes and you
need to bring xx documents. After 10 minutes, the message no longer has any
relevance as you have either attended the meeting with or without the
requested documents.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, George asked:

| Thanks Robert, works great.
| One more...there's a checkbox option in there for:
|
| [X] This message expires at [6/26/04 5:00pm]
|
| I wondered what the point of this is...if I make it expire let's say
| 15 minutes after the SEND time, it grays the subject header and draws
| a line thru it, but what's the purpose?
|
| Thanks
 
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