Saving Your Career

Friday, Feb 7, 2003

In response to Never Send An Email In Anger, Lars Bergstrom recommended that I set up a rule that defers sending an email for 1 minute. I set it for 2 minutes under Outlook XP like so:

• Tools->Rules Wizard
• New
• Start From A Blank Rule
• Check messages after sending
• Which condition(s) do you want to check? -> None
• This rule will be applied to every message you send. Is this correct? -> Yes
• What do you want to do with this message? -> defer delivery by a number of minutes
• a number of minutes -> 2
• Finish

And it works like a charm. It’s always w/in the first second that I wish I could recall a message, so two minutes should be more than enough. Wahoo!