Undo Emails instead of retracting them in Outlook 2010
If your now used to the way that GMail puts an automatic delay on all outbound emails, you might want to set this up for Outlook as well.
This is based on these instructions for an older version of Outlook. Here is the equivalent for 2010:
1. Switch to the Home tab
2. Click “Rules” on the right
3. Choose “Manage Rules and Alerts”
4. New Rule
5. Under “Start from a blank rule”, choose “Apply rule on messages I send”, and hit Next
6. Hit Next again, you should be prompted with a dialog. Choose Yes or No as you see fit. I chose Yes, to apply this rule to all outbound emails.
7. In the next step hit the checkbox for , “defer delivery by a number of minutes”
8. In the bottom area click the section of the text “a number of minutes”, enter your delay duration (I chose “5”), and hit OK.
9. Hit next twice, and finally give your rule a name, I chose “Delay Send by 5 Minutes” and then hit Finish
Now all of your emails that you send will sit in our outbox for about 5 minutes. Initial testing shows that it is about 5 minutes and it is not perfect (probably a delay with the UI, or exchange or some where in between).