Is there a way to unsend a Gmail message??

[Accipiter22]

If I sent out an email using Gmail that I didn't mean to, is there any way to unsend it?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Fess up and tell us what you sent out

Edit: And no, don't believe there is

 

[EKKC]

1) Go to recipient computer
2) Delete said email
3) ...
4) Profit?

not really, unless u can hack the gmail servers. by which time it's already on the recipient's incoming mail server if not already in their inbox

that being said, i found even within a corporate messaging environment the unsend/recall function does not work. you can send out an email internally, and immediately recall it, but to the recipient, they will see 2 pieces in the mailbox even AFTER you have unsent it, one with the original msg, then a notification that the sender has attempted to recall it. maybe it's a bad exchange server setup?

 

[Tuktuk]

Haha.. I've been there. No, unless you can log into the person's email box to delete it.

 

[Accipiter22]

darnit...ok thanks. It's not a big deal, I'll just have to rewrite an email and resend it. The one I sent out might cause some confusion

 

[leftyman]

quit your job huh?

 

[Epic Fail]

This is evil, but spam the recipient's inbox with several thousand emails.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: yamadakun
This is evil, but spam the recipient's inbox with several thousand emails.

I did that once as a favor to someone who sent an email to a girl he was dating he wanted to recall. Stupid college was running an open smtp relay and it took all of 5 minutes to start flooding it.

 

[idiotekniQues]

you need a flux capacitor

 

[Blazin Trav]

Time machine FTW.

 

[mobiblu]

Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
you need a flux capacitor

lol...

 

[Mrfrog840]

Originally posted by: mobiblu

Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
you need a flux capacitor

lol...

QFT

 

[Slickone]

Reminds me of The Office - Back From Vacation episode.

 

[huberm]

reminds me of the time my boss sent me a stupid email....so i forwarded it to a coworker with some nasty remarks about my boss sending me stupid emails. Only I made one mistake - instead of addressing it to my coworker I accidentally addressed it to my boss

 

[BoomerD]

yep, the same way you un-fvck your girlfriend...

Ah hell, that doesn't work either...

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Originally posted by: yamadakun
This is evil, but spam the recipient's inbox with several thousand emails.

I did that once as a favor to someone who sent an email to a girl he was dating he wanted to recall. Stupid college was running an open smtp relay and it took all of 5 minutes to start flooding it.

color me impressed