Oct 20, 2014 - If you decide later that you want to send the message immediately, do the following: In Mail, in the Folder Pane, click the Outbox folder. Open the delayed message. Click Options. In the More Options group, click Delay Delivery. Under Delivery options, clear the Do not deliver before check box. In Microsoft Outlook 2013, you can delay sending a single email message or use rules to delay the delivery of all messages. These messages are held in the Outbox for a specified time after you click Send. NOTE: If you are using POP3 or IMAP account, Outlook must remain open until the message is sent.
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This article describes a method for creating a recurring reminder e-mail message.
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Outlook does not provide a means to create recurring e-mail messages. For example, you might want to send an e-mail message every month to remind a group of people that a report is due. While you can set up appointments and tasks as recurring events, you cannot create a recurring e-mail message.
You can use Visual Basic Script and the recurrence settings of a task to automatically generate a recurring e-mail message. This procedure consists of the following tasks:
- Publish a custom task form that creates an e-mail message when the task status equals completed.
- Use the custom task form to create a recurring task.
- When the task comes due, mark it as completed. The code will generate the boilerplate message, which you then send. At the same time, a new task is created because the original task was set to recur.
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Publish a Custom Task Form
- Start Outlook and open your Tasks folder.
- On the **Actions **menu, click New Task.
- On the Tools menu, point to Forms, and then click Design This Form.
- On the Form menu, click View Code, and type the following code in the Script Editor:
- In the Script Editor, on the** File** menu, click** Close**.
- On the Tools menu, point to Forms, and then click Publish Form.
- In the Look in list, click Tasks. In the Display Name and Form Name boxes, type Reminder, and then click Publish.
- On the **File **menu, click Close. Do not save changes.
Note
In the code, substitute your own information inside the quotation marks for NewItem.To, NewItem.Subject, and NewItem.Body. These lines set the To, Subject, and body of your reminder message.
Create a Recurring Task Using the Custom Form
- Open your Tasks folder, where you published the custom reminder form.
- On the Actions menu, click New Reminder. This will open a new task based on your custom form.
- Type a subject for your reminder task. In Due Date, click to select a due date from the calendar. Click to select the Reminder check box.
- On the** Actions** menu, click Recurrence, and set how often you want the reminder message sent.
- Click Save and Close.
To Send Reminder E-mail
When you receive the reminder that the task is due, click Open Item. In the **Status **box, click to select Completed.
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Dismiss the reminder and in your Tasks list, click Completed.
Setting the task as completed will automatically generate a new task and display an e-mail message containing your boilerplate text. Click Send to send the message.
You can further automate the message. If you add the line NewItem.Send immediately below the NewItem.Display line, the message is automatically sent when you mark the task as completed.
Note
In Microsoft Outlook 2002, after you click Completed in the Status box, you receive the following message:
A program is trying to access e-mail address you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? Click Yes to send the message.