# 10 second email delay on direct emails

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** sales-email\
**Created:** [September 20, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085 "2023-09-20T16:12:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![NBilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@NBilder](https://community.hubspot.com/u/NBilder)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085/1 "2023-09-20T16:12:55Z")

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Hi! I know how to schedule emails for another day/time…but it woud be awesome if you added the ability to add an automatic 5/10 second delay option (like in gmail) when sending a direct email. Love tihs feature as an option to click unsend/stop and edit/fix a last minute mistake. Hoping that can become an update soon. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![MCamba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@MCamba](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MCamba)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085/2 "2023-11-23T13:42:41Z")

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Yes please, update if they have this already?

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**Author:** ![TomBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@TomBee](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TomBee)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085/3 "2024-08-07T15:52:02Z")

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This feature is desperately needed I think. Many times today I’ve wished to ammend my template before hitting send, but then it’s too late.  
Potentially this could be losing business for users. It should be easy enough to implement as a frontend change only.

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**Author:** ![TWoo\_GSQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@TWoo\_GSQ](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TWoo_GSQ)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085/4 "2025-01-16T18:48:46Z")

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This would be extremely useful!

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**Author:** ![AimeeV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@AimeeV](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AimeeV)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/10-second-email-delay-on-direct-emails/90085/5 "2025-11-24T16:47:12Z")

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I would use this weekly, because our default outbound email address is not the one I need to send email from, I have to manually select an alternate. No matter how many times it happens, I tend not remember it until after the email has already been sent. It’s one of the features I miss most from using Gmail for business.