Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Macro to get around: Outlook Issue : "Send Time" time stamp information is incorrect when you send a delayed delivery message in Outlook

' UPDATED 20160302 to include capability to support specific Outlook Accounts, Set the ACCOUNT_NAME const to mailbox, macro will run in that context.

Download latest here: 

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' This macro module was created because Outlook DeferredDelivery sets the SendTime to the time you click Send not the actual time  the email leaves the Outbox
' SEE HERE: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247176

' So I created this macro, download below,

'   DeferSendWithRealSentTime
'   This Module will check outbox if item has DeferredDelivery time set then this macro will send that item to recipients with the REAL SEND Time

'   To automate this we use a periodic function via win32/64 Timer will poll outbox every 1 min
'   Items with Defered Deliv set and now is within 10 min of Defered Deliv, this will clone the email item, send it.


Example of how it works:
In Outlook:
Create new email set DelayDeliverTime to something like for example:
As an example Times:
DeferDeliveryTime: 3:00PM
now is 2:30PM
Click Send
At 2:50PM the macro will fire, the email will be sent to recipients and the SentTime will be 2:50PM and NOT 2:30!!!!!!! Voila the MS issue is fixed.


Related MS Issue:  "Send Time" time stamp information is incorrect when you send a delayed delivery message in Outlook


Download the Macro Here, Unzip and add to Outlook!



'   Cloned Item will then appear in SentItems and Original will appear Deleted Items
'    SEE CheckOutbox() code
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'   Version: BETA
'   Date: 20150127
'   Author: jrd
'   Supports:
OL 2010 and above (tested with 2010)
32 and 64 bit!
'   Known Issues:
'       Embedded images show as attachement
'       Need testing with more Exchange versions
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3 comments:

  1. Updated 20150413: ' Rev History
    ' 20150413: Fix 2 bugs: 1) Updated to fix HTML Formatting and 2) Attach using file name not display name

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  2. did you ever figure out how to resolve the Embedded images as attachments?

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  3. Thank-you for this. Was looking everywhere.

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