Find out how to recall an email in Outlook in under a minute. Follow our guide to stop the email before it’s fully sent. Act fast!
A message sent to a public folder If anyone reads your message lurking in a public folder, the recall fails. Other email clients: The recall function works with messages in Outlook. If you send an email to someone who uses Gmail, for example, the recall won’t work. Recalling Outlook mes...
Yes, there are some prerequisites to using this feature in Outlook. You and the recipient must have a Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft 365 email account in the same organization. Remember, you can’t recall an email sent to Yahoo, Gmail, or any other emailing client. Also, Outlook Web doesn...
To confirm your message recall, Outlook will send you an email notification shortly after you recall an email with the subject line, “Message Recall Report for message [subject line of original message you sent].” This email lets you know if your recall request was successful. If your recal...
If you’ve ever sent an email and regretted it, you've wished you could yank it out of the other person's inbox. Fortunately, you can often recall an email when you’re using Microsoft Outlook, but you first have to know how.
But I realize that you may be here because you’ve sent a bad email and missed your window of opportunity to unsend., This is where it becomes more problematic. Gmail does not allow you to unsend after 1 minute, so forget about unsending after 1 hour or 1 day. ...