Bruce Dawson writes:
> If you're talking about deleting a message... the archives are
> essentially
> write-only, so no-can-do.
Greg is probably using a Microsoft mail client and an Exchange mail
server. One of the "features" offered by this system seems to be the
ability to recall mail. I guess that if you do this soon enough
there's a chance that the recipient will never see the mail. I don't
know what happens to the mail, for example, if the recipient has
already read the mail and has left the message out on the IMAP server
(I shudder to think about things like this).
In practice, I don't think that this works so well. If your mail
makes it out to a non-Microsoft mail server this recall request
doesn't do anything but double the amount of mail that the recipients
get (as we just saw). I get mail like this all the time.
Instead of offering "features" like this I wish that Microsoft would
concentrate on getting Exchange to just deliver regular mail in a
reliable manner. I'm not holding my breath...
--kevin
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