Recall an email
Mo
User has just asked if it's possible to recall an email that she's just
sent?
Is there a way to do this?
TIA
Mike Easter
There is an old saying that 'you cannot unsend an email.'
She can 'recall' - meaning view again - her mail in her Sent folder, but
the mail which has gone into the system from her Tb to her smtp server
to the recipient's smtp server and the recipient's inbox cannot be unsent.
(But) Some webmail providers such as gmail provide a feature by which
you can unsend (undo send) an email if you do it quickly enough.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1284885 If
you make a typo or regret sending a message, you can undo the action by
enabling the "Undo send" lab. This lab will give you the option to take
back a message you just sent.
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only if she thinks real hard about it. :0)
otherwise, no.
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Ron Hunter
Ron Hunter
it is to another gmail user.
I don't know of any mechanism that will get it back from another server.
David E. Ross
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
(Horace, 65-8 bce)
The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety or Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
(Omar the Tentmaker, died ca 1123 ce)
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On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages
posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent
because of spam from that source.
Greywolf
No.
Greywolf
> On 8/18/11 7:31 AM, Mo wrote:
>> Using Thunderbird 3.x.
>>
>> User has just asked if it's possible to recall an email that she's just
>> sent?
>>
>> Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> TIA
>
> Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
> (Horace, 65-8 bce)
>
> The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
> Moves on: nor all your Piety or Wit
> Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
> Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
> (Omar the Tentmaker, died ca 1123 ce)
>
Omar Khayyam used e-mail????
;p)
Wolf K.
Mike Easter
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> (But) Some webmail providers such as gmail provide a feature by which
>> you can unsend (undo send) an email if you do it quickly enough.
> Maybe. IF the message hasn't already been downloaded, and read, and IF
> it is to another gmail user.
> I don't know of any mechanism that will get it back from another server.
If you enable the undo send feature in gmail (labs feature), the email
sending process is delayed by some (unknown value to me) time factor.
During that time factor, if you undo send, the email isn't actually sent
- regardless of whether the recipient is gmail or otherwise; ie that
recipient part isn't a factor.
Like a grenade pin and a time fuse; if you put the pin back in it
doesn't go off.
--
Mike Easter
Gordon
>
> Like a grenade pin and a time fuse; if you put the pin back in it
> doesn't go off.
>
>
But only if the lever is still in place.... :-)
Ron Hunter
don't think TB offers this feature.
Never press 'send' in anger. Grin.
Ron Hunter
service, you can hold the pin, as long as you hold the handle, but once
the handle flies, you have x number seconds before it goes off, and
nothing I know of will stop it.
Vic Moz Garcia
It depends on what type of grenade are you talking about, I had used 3
different ones, NONE of then even had a handle.
Just like 'Mail servers' and 'Mail client', there are multiple ways to
skin a cat.
Mike Easter
Perhaps I should have expressed my grenade pin analogy better.
My scenario was: pull grenade pin; don't let go of the handle or the
pin, but instead maintain control of both; only under those
circumstances would you be able to replace the pin 'as if you had never
pulled it'.
If you let go of the handle, you can't replace the pin (handle spring
retainer) any more. Also, if you let go of or lose the pin, you also
can't replace the pin any more, so I guess you would have to hold the
handle forever.
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Mike Easter
Mike Easter
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>> Like a grenade pin and a time fuse; if you put the pin back in it
>>> doesn't go off.
> It depends on what type of grenade are you talking about, I had used 3
> different ones, NONE of then even had a handle.
My imaginary grenade was something resembling this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/M-67Grenade.jpg/371px-M-67Grenade.jpg
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Mike Easter
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