how said:
I have accidentally sent out an email to wrong recipient from Microsoft
outlook. May i know there is solution to withraw the email.
Recall rarely works across different e-mail servers. It only sometimes
works when both sender and recipient are using the same Exchange server
(or Exchange servers within the same organization); however, you are
probably sending e-mails via SMTP, not Exchange (you didn't bother to
mention your mail server environment or the recipient's). That means
rather than issuing a recall *function* to the Exchange server to yank
out the original e-mail from the recipient's mailbox, you are sending a
*new* e-mail that requests the recipient's mail client to remove an item
AFTER the mail client has downloaded the original message from their
mailbox. That means the mail client must understand the header in your
2nd new e-mail that makes the recall request. It also requires that the
recipient open the recall e-mail BEFORE they open your original message
- and that means the recipient would need to have mails listed in
descending sort order rather than ascending sort order. If the
recipient opens your original mail (which they WILL already have
downloaded) before opening your recall mail then they can obviously read
the original message because they have not first opened your recall mail
to then attempt to delete the original message. Even if the recipients
read their mails in descending sort order, it is unlikely that their
mail client knows how to handle a recall. The Microsoft-specific
non-standard modification of the Message-ID header (by adding the "!-!"
prefix and encoding instructions within the domain portion of the
message ID) is used to indicate a recall but it is only recognized by
users of Outlook (and they have to read e-mails in descending order to
open your recall mail first) so don't expect the recall to work. A
recipient using anything other than Outlook 2000+, like Outlook Express,
will see both the original message and recall message and opening the
recall first will NOT delete the original message. Non-Outlook e-mail
clients don't know how to handle the encoded recall request.
If using Exchange to send your e-mails and they are to a recipient using
the same Exchange organization then recall might work because the mail
server is handling the request to delete messages from the recipient's
mailbox. That is not probably your case. You are using SMTP from your
e-mail provider to the SMTP host of another e-mail provider. Recall
won't work unless both sender and recipient use Outlook 2000+ and the
recipient happens to open the recall message first. At this point, you
should send another new e-mail to correct your mistake in your original
message or apologize for its content. Getting a recall mail will only
draw more attention by the recipient to your original message.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197094/en-us
If you read the help already included in Outlook to search on "recall",
it would have plainly stated "This feature requires Microsoft Exchange".
For SMTP, there is a very, VERY, V-E-R-Y slim possibility that if the
recipient also uses Outlook that the recall via Message-ID directive
will work since Outlook used to handle that method. It rarely works.
