Outlook 2000 Mail Question

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Jean

Hello,

I remember years ago, you could "unsend" a sent message.
I can't seem to find that option anymore.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks for your help.
Jean
 
If you are using Exchange, the mail was sent within the same exchange
organization, the user has not opened the mail, you have sacrificed a virgin
16 years, 3 months, and 23 days old, included an egg-laying rooster, and
performed the sacred (and secret) dance au naturel around a manzanita
bonfire build by a Yangnee Indian, you MIGHT be able to recall it by going
to the sent items folder, selecting Actions->Recall Message.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Jean <[email protected]> asked:

| Hello,
|
| I remember years ago, you could "unsend" a sent message.
| I can't seem to find that option anymore.
|
| Does anyone know if this is possible?
|
| Thanks for your help.
| Jean
 
This depends on how you've configured your message sending. If you have it
set at send immediately and you're online, you're hosed the second it moves
from Outbox to Sent Items.

If you want to insert a delay factor, then click on Options in the New Mail
toolbar and click on Do not deliver before and insert a specific date and
time (say an hour to give you time to make sure you said what you meant and
actually wanted to have THAT said in writing - LOL!).

Another way is to compose your messages offline and check them before you
login and send them all.

But to answer your REAL question, once the email is "out there", there's no
calling it back. It used to be possible on some internal mail servers where
you could kill the message as long as the recipient hadn't received it yet -
and it MIGHT be possible if you were the Exchange Server admin assuming
there was a workable delay between receipt and forwarding. That worked
because it was all one big database. Now, make SURE before you press that
send key.
 
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