At 6:02 PM -0400 4/25/05, Stefan Jeglinski sent email containing:
>Somewhat off topic, but there are few topics these days anyway.
>
>I just got 3 e-mails in a row from a hapless Outlook (I assume) user. The
>first was the message. The second was just a message that said
>
> The sender would like to recall the message, "<subject>".
>
>where "<subject>" is just the name of the subject header in the first e-mail.
>
>The 3rd was obviously the edited e-mail she had intended to send.
>
>All of it came was sent out via their Exchange server. The time stamps were
>the same on all three, to the minute anyway, so there appeared to be some
>degree of automation to it.
>
>What is Outlook trying to do here? Is it supposed to be able to reach into
>recipient's e-mail boxes and delete ("recall") certain e-mails and replace
>them with others after the fact? Sounds far-fetched but I put nothing past
>Microsoft.
Yes, with Exchange as the mail server, it can recall sent messages before they
are read (leaving a note to the recipient that a message was recalled). Nothing
to worry about.
>
>
>Stefan "not an Outlook user" Jeglinski
Warren "used to be an Outlook user" Michelsen
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