Recipient Guard

Stop sending email to the wrong person.

You type “Dave”. Outlook offers a Dave. It’s the wrong Dave. Recipient Guard pauses the send and shows you exactly who’s about to receive your message.

See how it works Free Outlook add-in · coming to Microsoft AppSource

The most common email mistake isn’t a typo

It’s AutoComplete. One wrong pick from a dropdown and a message meant for a colleague goes to a stranger, a client, or someone’s personal address. Recipient Guard checks the recipients the moment you hit Send — and only interrupts when something genuinely looks off.

The wrong pick from AutoComplete

You’re emailing an address you don’t normally use for that person — caught even when it’s the only recipient on the message.

Look-alike recipients

Two people sharing a display name, or the same username on different domains.
john.doe@acme.com vs john.doe@acme-invoices.com

External recipients

Anyone outside your organisation gets flagged, so nothing leaves quietly.

Built for the way you actually send

No setup, no configuration. It works from the moment it’s installed.

Review before sending

See every recipient in one list, with the questionable one flagged and the reason why.

Delay 1 minute & send

A cooling-off window that lists everyone the message is going to — with a cancel button.

Don’t warn about this address

Whitelist an address you email deliberately and it stops asking. Once.

Smart detection

Optionally learns who you usually email, so it can spot a single wrong recipient. One click to turn on.

There is no Recipient Guard server

Your email never touches our infrastructure, because we don’t have any.

All recipient analysis runs locally, inside Outlook, on your device. The only thing stored — your frequent-contact list and your whitelist — is kept inside your own Microsoft 365 mailbox using Office roaming settings.

No recipient data, contact data, or message content is ever sent to us or to any third party. Message bodies and attachments are never read.

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