Comments on The EXPTA {blog}: "Do not deliver before" Behavior Doesn't Work as E...

Anonymouse you mentioned that you turn off the 'Do...

2009-07-06T08:49:09.254-07:00

Anonymouse you mentioned that you turn off the 'Download offline address book" feature. Has anyone else seen that issue before with that feature?

Great tip, thanks!

2009-06-09T07:18:35.221-07:00

Great tip, thanks!

There is one other dependency on this that I just ...

2009-06-09T07:10:24.846-07:00

There is one other dependency on this that I just ran into-- it's possible to have Outlook in Online mode but still have the a offline Address Book configured, and when you do deferred send with Outlook closed will not work. Go to Send/Receive and make sure "Download offline address book" is unchecked. For the record I also checked "Automatically Detect Connection State" when troubleshooting this issue.

... unless the user is in Cached Exchange Mode. Th...

2009-05-24T11:21:07.046-07:00

... unless the user is in Cached Exchange Mode. Then Outlook must be running for the message to be sent at the appropriate time.

Brad, if an Outlook 2003 user configures a message...

2009-05-24T11:19:34.333-07:00

Brad, if an Outlook 2003 user configures a message to "Do not deliver before" a certain date and time, the message will still appear in the user's Outbox, but Outlook does NOT need to be running when the message is sent.

JEff, yes, this is the scenario, but my understand...

2009-05-22T16:45:41.486-07:00

JEff, yes, this is the scenario, but my understanding is that the client should be able to close Outlook and still have it sent. They claim this was the behaviour in 2003, although I haven't confirmed.
In summary, they must always have Outlook open to have the scheduled mail sent?

Thanks,
Brad

If a user running Outlook in Online Mode sends an ...

2009-05-22T10:36:22.677-07:00

If a user running Outlook in Online Mode sends an email and immediately closes Outlook, Outlook will warn the user that an email is in the Outbox and has not been sent. Outlook will ask the user if he wants to send the email before shutting down Outlook.

Are there any server dependencies for this? I have...

2009-05-22T10:31:48.201-07:00

Are there any server dependencies for this? I have clients (and can reproduce) not having mail sent if they close Outlook 2007 and they do not have Cached mode enabled.

To enable or disable Cached Exchange Mode:In Outlo...

2008-07-18T07:24:00.000-07:00

To enable or disable Cached Exchange Mode:

In Outlook 2007:
* From the Tools menu, select Account Settings... .

* Highlight your Exchange server account, and then click Change... .

* To turn Cached Exchange Mode on or off, under "Microsoft Exchange Server:", check or uncheck the box next to Cached Exchange Mode. Click Next, and in the window that opens, click OK.

* Click Finish. You must restart Outlook for the change to take effect.

In Outlook 2003:
* From the Tools menu, select Email Accounts... .

* In the window that opens, under "Email", make sure the radio button next to View or change existing email accounts is selected, and then click Next.

* Highlight your Exchange server account, and click Change... .

* To turn Cached Exchange Mode on or off, under "Microsoft Exchange Server:", check or uncheck the box next to Cached Exchange Mode. Click Next, and in the window that opens, click OK.

* Click Finish. You must restart Outlook for the change to take effect.

Probably a stupid question: how do I know if I'm o...

2008-07-17T20:42:00.000-07:00

Probably a stupid question: how do I know if I'm on cached mode or not?
I'm connected with the "connect to my exchange using HTTP" option checked.

Anonymous, please read the article again. Outlook...

2008-03-12T12:29:00.000-07:00

Anonymous, please read the article again. Outlook 2007 does this.

Does anyone know if Outlook 2007 will allow users ...

2008-03-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

Does anyone know if Outlook 2007 will allow users to send messages as delayed message when Outlook is closed? If so, what can be done to allow this?

"On a side note, the message will show as Received...

2007-08-01T00:16:00.000-07:00

"On a side note, the message will show as Received in the Inbox at the delayed send time (say, 8:00am today). When you open the message, the Sent time will be the time the sender clicked the Send button (say, 5:00pm yesterday). This prevents a user from scheduling an email the night before saying, "I'm in the office this morning like you requested, but I'm going home now.""

i understand this may be a 'peon control' feature but there are some legitimate uses for the recipient not knowing it was _sent_ at a specific time such as not letting people know you work at 2am, etc.

Yeah, but that doesn't work well for a disconnecte...

2007-06-18T10:11:00.000-07:00

Yeah, but that doesn't work well for a disconnected user. One client I work for has about 2,500 mobile users who only access Outlook via VPN. It's impractical to have these users leave Outlook open to send a deferred delivery message. Hopefully Microsoft will offer a better solution.

We're finding on our desktops now, that the Deffer...

2007-06-18T10:04:00.000-07:00

We're finding on our desktops now, that the Deffered Delivery doesn't work with Outlook 2003 shutdown. We're running Exchange 2003 SP2. A bunch of us have always seen inconsistant behaviour of this functionality and find it best to just leave Outlook open for best results.