A more reliable way is to prevent these kinds of situations by delaying email sending for a certain interval.

However, that only works for Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange accounts and has many other limitations. The good news is that Microsoft Outlook provides a way to recall a message that has already been sent. It's possible that some email accounts may not work smoothly with this system but it works perfectly for me.Three ways to delay send in Outlook: delay delivery of a particular message, create a rule to defer all emails, or schedule auto sending.ĭoes it often happen to you that you send a message and a moment later you wish you hadn't? Perhaps you clicked Reply All instead of Reply, or accidentally sent sensitive information to a wrong person, or just realized that your angry response was a bad idea and you need to cool down and think of better arguments. If I do a search in macOS Mail for Sent to my wife in All Mail its there but not in gmail. Obviously this means that if I look in gmail > sent mail it does not appear but as I only use the combined (All Mailboxes) view in macOS it does, not so on my iPhone of course. I tried again with my Microsoft account and the same result. So, it's apparent that Delayed Mail is sent via iCloud (see above) no matter which email provider account is used to write the original. I now go back to my iPhone, where the Mailboxes are not combined and look in iCloud Sent Mail and sure enough there is my email, sent at 0800 as intended. There is my email in All Sent, BUT not from gmail but iCloud!

In macOS Mail my mailboxes are combined, so eg All Inboxes, All Drafts, All Sent etc.

I expected that creating a Delayed Mail item in iOS would have resulted in a Send later mailbox appearing in All Mail in macOS Mail.Īt 0800 I check my wife's Mail app and my email has been received.Ĭheck my iPhone and the Send Later Mailbox is gone but my email is not in sent mail.Ĭheck my MBP and here's the big reveal. No Send Later Mailbox and no new mail in Drafts. You can see the 1 item in the now visible Sent Later Mailbox. I sent a delayed email to my wife on my iPhone (iOS16) using my gmail account set to send at 0800. Not to confuse things here but I tried a slightly different bent on the topic.

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