Outlook 2003 - how to flag outbound messages for my own followup?

J

Jeff Garbers

Often, when I send an email, I would like Outlook to help me remember to
check that whatever I was dealing with in the email has been taken care
of. I'd want Outlook to either maintain a folder of things that need
closure or to give me a reminder X days after sending the email to check
up on the task.

I don't want to use tasks for this -- I'd rather just create an email,
since the people receiving the message (such as a customer service
department) would be confused by the "funny stuff" in the task message
such as "Status: Not Started", etc.

The "flag for follow-up" feature seems to be what I need, except that I
can't figure out how to assign flags *for myself* in outbound messages.
Flagging an outbound message seems to flag it for the recipient, not me.
I can go to "Sent Items" and flag the message from there, but it seems
like there should be an easier way to do this simply while composing the
email.

Can anyone suggest a method that'll give me the results I'm looking for?
Thanks in advance.
 

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