Recalling a Sent Mail in Windows Live Mail

Recalling a Sent Mail in Windows Live Mail

It is possible to recall a sent mail through the Windows Live Mail. There are a few steps that need to be followed in order to recall a mail that has already been sent. Get to know about them in this article.

Microsoft has launched various products that are available on the market to satisfy the needs of customers. This has made them to hold a firm grip on the field if information technology. Windows Live Mail is the product that has gained a huge recognition among fans of Microsoft all over the world. It has messenger chat options, sharing of photos, sending and receiving mails and family safety filters to keep kids from unwanted information. People can make use of blog writer embedded with the application that helps in sharing words in a social environment. It has an Outlook Connector Pack to manage mail servers within local area of connectivity. There are toolbar options available that helps in easy search for contents needed by the user more effectively.

Windows Live Mail another important feature is to recall a message that is already sent to a recipient. A user may mistakenly send email to a wrong person, nuisance content or nasty messages within a moment of time. In most of the cases, withdrawing or undoing a sent mail is impossible. The mail once sent passes through the recipient server, which cannot be reached at any moment. If both client and server make use of Microsoft Exchange server, there are possibilities of recalling the message sent to an unintended recipient. This function has helped the user who has sent messages to the wrong person to retrieve it more effectively. This can be done by using certain options available in Windows Live Mail.

Open Windows Mail client application and click on sent messages. There is an option available - Other Actions button present in Action group of Message tab on the tools panel. From the drop-down menu, click Recall This Message. If this option is not active on the menu, then there is no use of Exchange Server and user cannot be able to restore the sent mail. If that option is active click either Delete Unread Copies or Replace with a New Message or Delete Unread Copies of This Message depending on user needs. There is an option available called - Tell Me if Recall Succeeds or Fails for Each Recipient, which can be checked or unchecked based on the user to receive a confirmation mail. Follow the steps that are prompted on-screen to recall the message successfully.

This feature of Windows Mail has helped users who have accidentally sent messages to unintended people or sending unintended information to friends. This also has resulted in reducing the frustration of the recipient who could have received the unwanted message in his or her message inbox. Hence, the use of Microsoft Windows Live has increased in number. It can be downloaded from its official site for free.

Recalling Emails from Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 | Recalling Sent Emails from Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003

Recalling Emails from Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003

Message recalling is the process of deleting emails sent in error. Microsoft Exchange provides a native solution for this purpose, however too often this fails to do the job. WinDeveloper Message Recall greatly improves this functionality by adding a server side recalling process. Users are provided with a predictable solution that reliably fulfills their recall requests.

WinDeveloper requires no new client-side software. Users recall messages from Outlook exactly in the same manner they do in native recalling. The product also generates success/failure notifications identical to those of the native recall implementation rendering this Exchange add-on completely transparent.

This document shows how to recall emails from various Outlook clients. WinDeveloper Message Recall does not introduce anything new in Outlook. Indeed these are the same steps used for recalling emails when relying exclusively on the native Exchange/Outlook recalling functionality.

Recalling Emails from Outlook 2013 and 2010

Assuming we sent an email that we want to take back, here are the steps to follow in Outlook 2013 and 2010:

1. Fetch the email to be recalled from the Sent Items folder.
2. Open the email and at the Ribbon click on File.

This is what it looks like in Outlook 2013:

This is what it looks like in Outlook 2010:

3. From the Info category select
Resend or Recall | Recall This Message...

4. This opens the Recall Options dialog. Note that from here on the screenshots are taken from Outlook 2013. However exactly the same steps also apply to Outlook 2010.

5. Here we choose between deleting unread copies of the original message, or to both delete and replace the message. If we choose the latter, the original email opens up for us to edit and resubmit.

6. Lastly the checkbox at the bottom allows us to choose whether we want to receive notifications on the outcome of the recall request.

7. Clicking Ok at the Recall Options dialog, the recall request is submitted.

If notifications were requested, within a few minutes, WinDeveloper Message Recall returns a set of success/failure notifications. Here is what a success notification looks like:

Here is a failure notification:

These notifications allow Outlook to build up tracking information that gets added to the original email at the Sent Items folder. To see this, open the original email from Sent Items. Next, at the Ribbon select Message | Show | Tracking:

Recalling Emails from Outlook 2007

All the functionality shown in Outlook 2013 is also available in Outlook 2007. The only difference is in locating the Recall This Message command. This is available at the Ribbon under Message | Actions | Other Actions | Recall This Message.

Other than that, the Recall Options dialog, Notifications, and Tracking look very similar to what we already saw in Outlook 2013.

Recalling Emails from Outlook 2003

Outlook 2003 also provides the same functionality. Things just look a little bit more squarish. Once we open the email from the Sent Items folder, a recall request is submitted from Actions | Recall This Message which again opens the same options dialog we saw before.

There is nothing significantly different in Notifications and Tracking either. Again tracking information will be added to the original email on receiving notifications. Here is what tracking looks like: