If you often send an incorrect email I would suggest other workarounds. Since it is so seldom that message recall works, I recommend that you don’t use it at all! It just adds more focus to the incorrect email. Other recommendations to prevent unwanted email to be sent Now he or she will definitely open up and read the initial email and try to figure out why you wanted to recall the message. Unfortunately, the “recall” message often sparks the receiver’s curiosity. If you are lucky, the receiver will see that you want to recall the email and simply delete it or ignore it. An email titled “Recall:” is sent, but the original, incorrect email is not deleted from the recipient’s inbox. Since she is outside our organization and since she is not using Exchange or Outlook the message recall does not succeed. In the below example I’ve tried to recall an email sent to Ariel. Instead, the receiver will see an additional email informing him or her that you would like to recall the email. If one or more of the criteria above are not met, your message will not be deleted from the receiver’s inbox. What happens when the criteria are not met?
If you are in luck and recalling the message actually works (see more details what is required for it to work below), the email will be deleted and replaced with the new, correct one.
If you check the option to “Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient” you will get an email telling you if Outlook was able to recall the message or not. In this scenario, I will delete the email and replace it with an email with the correct attachment. Here you can choose to “Delete unread copies of this message” or to “Delete unread copies and replace with a new message”. To recall a message you have sent, go to your “Sent Items”, open up the email message and under “Actions” click “Recall This Message”. In the below example I’ve sent an email to my colleague Peter, but I’ve accidentally attached the interview feedback from the interview I had with Peter – not the new job candidate! Needless to say, I desperately want to recall this message and replace it with an email with the correct attachment. The “Recall” functionality is available from Microsoft Outlook version 2003 to the current version. But what happens when you click “Recall” in Outlook? Is your message really removed from the recipient’s mailbox? In most cases – No! In this article, I will share with you how the “Recall” email function works in Outlook and why you’re probably better off not using it. You open up the email you accidentally sent and to your great relief you see an option in Outlook to “Recall” the message. The moment you hit the “Send” button you panic! Oh no! The email is out on the Internet and you’d do anything to get it back.
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Business Productivity > Blog > How to recall an email – and why you shouldn’t do it! How to recall an email – and why you shouldn’t do it!Īt some point in time, I’m sure you’ve sent an email that you desperately want to take back.