Message recall

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If the recipient's computer is off when a sender recalls a message, will
Outlook attempt the recall again when the recipient's computer is turned on?
 
Sort of. The recall works by sending a recall message to the recipient's
computer. When they turn the computer on again they will receive this
recall message. Occasionally that will initiate a successful recall of the
target message. Usually it won't.

There are a very specific set of circumstances that have to occur for a
message recall to succeed -- the recipient has to be running Outlook, the
target message has to be in the Inbox (not a subfolder) and has to be
Unread. Even if all of that falls just right recall might not work.

Usually what recall does is alert the other person that you've said
something you regret. The recall message is an RTF message titled "ToniM
would like to recall her message 'Try a breath mint!'". Usually when the
other recipient sees that they'll make an effort to seek out the original
message to see what you said and as often as not, in my experience, they'll
have no problem finding/opening it.

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm

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Thanks for your help. I knew about all the conditions for a successful
message recall; but I wasn't sure if the program distinguished between
someone being logged on to Outlook and the computer being off.
 
It doesn't. The person has to be logged onto Outlook (which means that the
computer has to be on) in order for Recall to work.
 
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