OT: Email recall - What was the point?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:12:02AM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> Once in a while, I get to assist someone who need recalling a mail. I
> have never seen one work. Personally, I would not even bother with it.
> However, it look like everybody know about the feature which mean it
> was well marketed, so the best way is to attempt it so that the user
> does not blame us for not attempting it.
> 
> Which bring the question, why did Microsoft ever place such a useless
> feature on their application? When was it ever able to work?  I
> suspect it was only for local mail, but they should have put the
> disclaimer along the feature
> 
> Anyway, not really a question, but a morning rant.

I have only ever heard of the feature on outlook, so yes it almost
certainly only works with exchange and probably only locally.

Users really ought to clue into the fact that once you send an email,
it is sent and there is no undo or recall because it is now on someone
elses server and it isn't your decision anymore.

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Len Sorensen
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