[Closed] Outlook's recall function...

Only works if they are on the same exchange server as you

I wouldn't trust it, personally. It [i]should [/i]work on an internal mail system (ie, mailing another user on the same Exchange server), but there's a few variables. Over the Internet, forget it.

DId you CC 2tyred?

From what i've seen at work, we still get the emails and then when you hit the to accept the revoke nothing happens anyway and the message stays in the inbox.

Agree, I thought the recipient had to be on the same server, otherwise the email was long gone.

Please expand on the subtext behind the query ?

In my experience no it doesnt work. Good luck fella.

You need to tell us all what you said, did it involve back doors, bombers or piddling in footwear?

If they have a blackberry or iphone which has push on your ****ed

A colleague was sent an invite for a meeting with our big boss about something. My colleague forward the email invite to me asking "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?". I replied saying various things, and it went to the big boss rather than my colleague.

I didn't say anything sackable (i think!), but it is the sort of thing which would probably annoy the big boss and i'd have to explain it.

Big boss is on the same server, so finger crossed it works. Hopefully it won't have gone to their Blackberry...i don't know if they have one.

it's worked for me.

if you genuinely meant what you said why be scared. seems weird not to tell your boss stuff?

When I see these recall notices it normally asks me if I will let it recall it. This is obviously a flag that alerts me to something juicy and I will then seek out and read said email.

Its mostly people forgetting to attach stuff though, dull!

At my last place a colleague sent an offensive (the C word amongst others) reply (accidentally to all) to his boss's farewell email (he was relocating to another office). We worked in a very large open plan office and it went silent and one by one people gasped and looked across to his desk. Seconds later he was sprinting downstairs to IT to get them to delete it. They did but only after 50% of the office read it, we dined out on that for quite some time afterwards.

What jfletch said - the recall draws attention and makes it look worse.

Oh and it never works

cheers_drive has just reminded me of an awesome story from my last place of work. Two people at work were having a bit of a fling - one night they got caught at a works do when her fella turned up out of the blue. - Bit of a scrap ensued and all went quiet for a bit.

Week or so later disgruntled boyfriend hacks her email account and pings out some tasty pics of her to her whole address book - which includes all her friends, family and work colleagues. IT were way too slow to react and stop it - it got out to a good portion of the office of 200 😆

It works forest-wide on Exchange IIRC, not just the local server.

i.e. you send an internal email by mistake to your colleague in Australia, you can still recall it.

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Message Recall Failure

gulp...

I might work from home tomorrow.

Did you not click the checkbox :

"Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient"

That would let you know if it worked and save you the worry.

(Edit: obviously you did 🙂 )

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The default set up on Outlook is to : "not process actions or requests"

This would stop the recall from working.

Unless they have changed that setting, that's what has caused the Recall Failure more than likely.

School boy error 😉

I think you're most likely screwed. You might not get pulled on it but if it's been read, it will be noted. Chances are your boss will have a mobile device which almost certainly guarantees it I'm afraid.

Always better to write and delete, never send it 🙂

Can you at least quote the email in full here so we can can assess how screwed you are? 🙂

Not that it helps you in this case, but you can set up outlook rule to delay sending messages for a few minutes. That way they can sit in your outbox for a couple of minutes, giving you a chance to change your mind.

grum - Member
Can you at least quote the email in full here so we can can assess how screwed you are?

Let me think...

Ah, reminds me of the time I sent "I heard you like it rough" to my boss (female) instead of a ahem nother female.
She laughed, luckily 😳

We need follow up on this CaptJon 🙂