Recalling Email's

[Penguin]

Can someone explain how the recalling of an email works? What I mean, does the email get sent back when the person it is sent to tries to open it, or automatically before they read it. Also does it only recall it if it hasn't already been open? Does the intended person know that the email is or was recalled? etc....

We send files to customers, and sometimes after the email has been sent we need to make a change to the file and I was wondering how this all works and what the person on the other end see"s.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Kento]

I don't believe an email can be retrieved once it's been sent.

[Penguin]

Is it true you can't recall email's? I have never done it, and didn't think it was possible, but the people here at work say it is possible.

In Microsoft Outlook, if you open your sent file and go under actions, ther is a "recall this message". Now I tried it on a message I sent oversea's, but the person I sent it to already opened the message before I sent to recall.

Someone said it will only work if the email has not yet been opened.

This is why I am trying to figure out how this recall thing works.

Does anybody know?

Please advise.

Thanks.

[tward]

Go to Google and do a search on "recall Outlook email". You will find much info.

[Statica]

LOL another proprietary header from Micro$oft, that is far from practical and is not going to be supported by the rest of the sane world .. thank goodness.
Outlook recall email works only with M$ exchange server over a LAN (or local mail), and has to have both users with outlook 2000 and higher (and possibly both users wearing blue socks .. am sure thats another requirement M$ will place to have it work correctly).
As it is, the headers that any delivery system (client or server - mail .. news .. web) M$ generates is bloated and lameware .. and to top it the goofs at M$, are actually thinking of adding more.

Why not just write in random X-headers that-
X-header-9721: {Get_registry_values_for_non-Microsoft-software}
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X-header-9819: {Send_X-header-9721-to_takeovers@microsoft.com}
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[doctorgonzo]

Yeah, the only way you can have a system where you can recall e-mail is to use a mail server. We use Novell Groupwise and you can recall mail sent between local addresses, but if you send the e-mail to a person "on the outside" you can't recall it.

[Penguin]

Thanks guys. That is what I was thinking. That you had to be within the local email for it to recall the email. I couldn't see how it could recall an email if I sent it to someone across the internet.

Thnaks for the clarification. I feel better knowing that I wasn't losing my mind.

[Xayd]

Recalling among exchange clients works with Outlook Virus Magnet '97 too.

The catch is, M$ exchange is in function similar to an IMAP server, and unless the admin of the mail server has remembered to block IMAP clients (considering he's running Exchange, not likely) anyone who accesses their mail with another client can see all of the recalled messages that they'd like to see.

Something that requires security being secured on the client and not the server is inherently S-T-U-P-I-D so don't bet on messages not being read if you employ this 'recall' thing.