EMail retrival

[Vegito]

I'm assuming at this stage of technology, once you hit send, no way of getting it back ?

 

[Haircut]

If you are using Outlook it is possible.
Open up the sent message Outlook, have a look in the Actions menu and near the button is an item: Recall the message
I have never tried this myself, but I am guessing it will only work if the recipient is on Outlook too.

 

[kuk]

Haircut: on my translated version of Outlook, that option means resend the e-mail ... and that's what it does. Since Outlook uses POP3 (a non-proprietary protocol), there's no such thing as a "work if the recipient is on Outlook too".

forcesho: Humm, on the other hand, if your using web-based services, there could be a tiny chance of that service having a "Undo" function, if messages are sent between users of the same service. There's an ISP here in Brazil that supports this. The only one I know of.

 

[Haircut]

kuk, on my version of Outlook (2000) there is a recall message as well as a resend message option.
I guessed that it might only work if both users were on Outlook as the option to notify for reading the message will only work if this is the case, so I am assuming the recall works on the same principal.

edit
I have just been testing this out and all it seems to do is give the user a message saying user would like to recall message so I guess that is not what you are looking for.

 

[Sunner]

I guess maybe on some properiarity systems this would be possible, but if you're just sending through your abarge SMTP server to whoever@foobar.com there's no way to stop it once its away(well, theoretically there is, but in reality its pretty much impossible).

 

[Vegito]

Oh well.. someone here send wrong letter to 355 people... no my fault. Thanks..

 

[Ladi]

In Outlook, there is the ability to recall messages (before they're read, so it does NOT always work) *if* the sender and the recipient are on the same Exchange email system. Otherwise, you're out of luck if using SMTP to send email...

~Ladi