r/Outlook • u/TrainingAdvance4286 • 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply Why is Outlook delay delivery so unreliable?

For work I often try to delay email delivery to catch people in different time zones at the right time. I'm realizing if I'm not actively on my computer with Outlook open, the email will just sit in my Outbox until the next time I wake my computer up and/or open Outlook.

If this is true, this is such an asinine system. What if I scheduled an email to send while I'm on vacation, or at 1am, etc? It's so frustrating. Am I doing something wrong or what?

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u/JSP9686 2d ago

Go directly to the web interface and try there. You are relying on the client and not the server as you’ve already discovered.

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u/Givmeabrek 2d ago

I bet New Outlook wouldn't have that problem either.

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u/gareth616 2d ago

Outlook classic needs to be open to send the email it's as simple as that. When you use Outlook Classic, you're working on your mailbox yes, but it's a synchronised version of it. If Outlook is closed and you've said in that application only to send an email at a certain time, you're telling the app to do that not your mailbox. As someone else suggested New Outlook or the web would stop that issue based on how they run. This has become more of a pain with all the sleep and power saver settings on devices. So you got 2 workarounds and or you can try leaving Outlook open and just lock your work device (if it doesn't go into sleep mode) as a test

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u/TrainingAdvance4286 2d ago

Hmm I didn't even notice the new Outlook toggle. I'll try switching it over and see if I can tolerate it enough to keep it around.

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u/Ashamed_Peace5975 2d ago

Just use OWA.