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I have Outlook 200 Professional and I need to know how to
recall an unread message. I do see a recall option on my
tool bar. DO I need to reinstall of is there another way
to recall an unread message?
Please need help.
Recall works by sending a special message. If sent to Exchange, and if
your message is still on the Exchange server (i.e., has not yet been
sent out) or the recipient is also on the same Exchange server (but has
not yet read it), maybe the recall will work. If not using Exchange,
the special message gets sent to the recipient who must also be using
Outlook to recognize the message. That means the recipient must not
have read your message before they read your special message to recall.
However, most users will sort their e-mails and it is likely they'll
read them in order of oldest to newest, so they WILL read your message
before they open the special recall message. Recall rarely works. I've
yet to see it work when an Exchange server is not in the mix and then
only when both sender and recipient use the same Exchange server.
Configure your e-mail client to NOT send immediately after you click
Send when composing a message. Then you have at least until the next
mail poll to yank your message by deleting or moving it from the Outbox.
Alternatively, don't click Send and just save your message to give you a
cooling down interval or a research period before you actually decide,
say, an hour later to actually send the e-mail. For 99.99% of the times
when you send e-mails, they get sent by your mail server and are then
completely out of your control.
There are e-mail services you can pay for that will let you expire
e-mails. Some require that both the sender and recipient use a plug-in
to do the encrypting and decrypting and to set or interrogate the
attributes of the message, like when it expires. You can then expire
the message and hope that the recipient has not yet read it, or you can
expire it anytime after the recipient has read it, and you track your
message. Don't expect this service to prevent the recipient from
editing and resending your message since even if the plug-in bars those
functions in the e-mail client it cannot bar them from simply capturing
the screen containing your message.
