Question

I use Outlook 2010 and Powershell 2.0.

I want send a Outlook message, and delay delivery programmatically of a message using Powershell.

How can I create a new Outlook email and immediately defer delivery?

Answer 1

If you try this:

$ol = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application  
$mail = $ol.CreateItem(0)  
$mail | Get-Member

you’ll get a list of all methods/properties available on the mail object.

One property is DeferredDeliveryTime. You can set it like this:

#Stay in the outbox until this date and time
$mail.DeferredDeliveryTime = "11/2/2013 10:50:00 AM"

Or:

#Wait 10 minutes before sending mail
$date = Get-Date
$date = $date.AddMinutes(10)
$mail.DeferredDeliveryTime = $date