Connie said:
On Nov. 19th, when sending an e-mail, I went into Message Options, and
selected "Do not send before" and put the date Nov. 24th, 2009 @ 1:30 PM. I
clicked "Send" and the message went into my Outbox and sat there. I just
found out today, Nov. 25th, that the message never went. I checked my Outbox
and it's still there. What gives?
How is any program going to do anything if that program isn't running? If
you want Outlook to send your e-mails now or later then Outlook had better
be running. When you exit Outlook, obviously it can't do anything. If you
want to defer sending of your e-mails to a later time then you will need to
leave Outlook running all the time (or, at least, around a window of
opportunity that encompasses the desired send time).
When you start Outlook *after* the desired date, it's too late. The time
did not arrive for Outlook to then send it. The date is past if you load
Outlook too late. You set the date for the future. Outlook needs to be
running. The date arrives so Outlook will send your delayed e-mail. But
Outlook MUST be running at the time you wanted to defer the send.
The above assumes you are using Outlook as an Internet e-mail client with
SMTP as the mail server. You never mentioned WHAT type of mail server you
are using. If using Exchange, Outlook does not need to be left running.
Instead the Exchange server handles the deferred send from items added to
its queue. If you're not using Exchange to perform the delayed send
(because it will have a copy of your e-mail), you are then trying to use
Outlook as the mail server. Well, a mail server can't do anything if it
isn't running.
