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Some distribution management tools allow a sender to retrieve or "unsend" a message from a recipient's inbox, even if the recipient has opened the mail. According to Omniva (formerly called Disappearing Inc), their distribution management tool, Policy Manager, is the electronic equivalent of a message written with disappearing ink. An e-mail message can be sent with a stored encryption key that can be set to expire after a certain amount of time. A message sent with Omniva may disappear from the recipient's inbox after the expiration date as passed. There are several other distribution management tools available, including Atabok's VCNMail 2.0 and Authentica's MailRecall. Larger companies, including Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook, are also including distribution management features in their most recent versions. Some distribution management tools allow the sender to revise an e-mail that has been sent, a capability that would be appreciated by a sender who had succumbed to e-mail rage or by an e-mail newsletter editor who discovered a serious error after the mail had been sent. Experts predict that disappearing e-mail will play a role in digital rights management because there are legal, as well as business or personal reasons, for protecting message data. 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