How many times have you pressed the send button in your email program to realise that you had sent it to the wrong person, or that you had forgotten the attachment or yet again that maybe you should not have said what you just said... It happens to me all the time. For some reason pressing the send button usually refreshes my memory and makes me remember me of things that I should have said or... not said. Unfortunately, it's usually too late. But it does not have to be this way. Here are a few options available to you:
- If you are using Microsoft Exchange you can recall the message. However, keep in mind that the recall button available in Outlook only works if your mail server is Microsoft Exchange and if your recipient is using the same server. In other words if you send the email to someone outside the organization, it will not work. In that case it can actually be worse than not doing anything as the recipient will receive a second email saying: Joe Blog would like to recall this message... Probably not what you wanted. And even if you recall an internal message, the original message will still be visible to the recipient up to the moment the recall is sent.
