Outlook is a pretty slow program to launch, so if you accidentally click on the close control, it’s a teeth-gnashing moment. Use some email trickery to force Outlook to check before you quit.
Windows IT Pro details a fiddly but functional trick for making Outlook prompt you when it tries to close. Create a message to yourself, hit the Options tab and click on the Delay Delivery button, then set a date long into the future. As long as that message remains in your Outbox, Outlook should prompt you whenever it closes that there are unsent messages in the Inbox, giving you an option to avoid closing. Hit the link for the full details.
Displaying A Prompt Before Outlook Closes [Windows IT Pro]
John Kirkham
Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 8:19 AMI’ve sped up Office Outlook to launch almost intantly, much faster than Live Mail 2011 or even plain IE Outlook.
Outlook doesn’t shut down completely anyway when you hit the ‘red x’. It is still running as a process in the background. File/Exit will stop it completely. This is when you should receive the prompt, otherwise it will still send after hitting the x.
Brendan Erofeev
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 3:44 PMActually, Outlook will only hold open after pressing the X if you have a bad addon that is holding it open. If you have a clean install of Outlook with no addons, the X will close it completely.
Mark
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6:23 AMThis seems not to work in Outlook 07. Any ideas?