When I send a message using the Delay Send option, the email goes to my
Outbox folder. If I exit Outlook, I get a warning that there are unsent
messages in my Outbox. Is there any way to avoid getting prompted about
messages being in my Outbox when I use the Delay Send feature?

I get prompted about having an item in my Outbox whether or not I am in
Cached Mode. I have Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.

Thanks.

-- Carolyn

Carolyn wrote:

> When I send a message using the Delay Send option, the email goes to my
> Outbox folder. If I exit Outlook, I get a warning that there are unsent
> messages in my Outbox. Is there any way to avoid getting prompted about
> messages being in my Outbox when I use the Delay Send feature?
>
> I get prompted about having an item in my Outbox whether or not I am in
> Cached Mode. I have Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Carolyn

Delaying of delivery for e-mails requires SOMETHING to actually do the send,
don't you agree? If you weren't using Exchange, you would need to leave
Outlook running so it could actually perform the send operation at the later
time that you specified. You mention Exchange so the item should get sent
from Outlook to the Exchange server. That means Exchange then has the item
and it will do the later send. If the item got sent to the Exchange server
(for immediate or delayed send), it shouldn't remain in your Outbox folder.

Most likely you are composing a new e-mail, setting it for a delayed send,
clicking Send which moves it in the Outbox folder, but not waiting long
enough afterward to let Outlook actually do the send to the Exchange server
for that message. You want Exchange to get the message so it can do the
deferred delivery. That means it cannot still be in the Outbox folder of
Outlook (which means it has not yet been sent to the Exchange server).

Is the deferred delivery item getting stuck in your Outbox folder in
Outlook? If you wait, does it eventually get sent to the Exchange folder
(and which means Outlook moves the item out of the Outbox folder and into
the Sent Items folder)? Do you have the "send immediately" option enabled
in Outlook, or are you not sending immediately and only relying on the
scheduled mail polls to send your messages from Outlook to Exchange?

If you are exiting Outlook and the deferred item is still sitting in your
Outbox folder then it has not yet been sent to the Exchange server. That's
why you get the warning from Outlook.