Have you ever regretted sending an email?

Gmail in my opinion have come up with a very good idea regarding the facility to un-send a email message 30 seconds after sending it.

Its happened to me a few times, I've hit the send button then suddenly realised oh s***t I've sent it to the wrong person, I didn't want that person to see the email, this new feature will give you a few seconds to save your blushes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33256934

In a Microsoft Active Directory environment you have the ability to recall sent messages and/or delete before being read. This has been around for many years and is quite useful.

Messages sent outside Active Directory (basically the office or company where the email server is - could be globally) cannot be recalled. So there is no time limit as such, just as long as the person hasn't read the message before you initiate the recall.

I guess Gmail just delays the mail prior to queuing for sending.

Very useful nonetheless

I am sure this feature has been available in the past. I recall we could do that with corporate email with my last employer. Recall or something similarly named.

To be honest this is the first time I have heard you being able to stop an email, maybe because I have an old version of Outlook (2007) or maybe I do not have the facility set up.

We cannot use it with our gmail system here at work.

But with my previous employer it was possible to recall.

Have you done just that, recently, Timmers?

The reason I started the thread is because a couple of weeks ago I "replied to all" in an email not realizing that the customer was in the loop, luckily it was just an email regarding timings, when I could be on site and the like, I thought afterwards that I was lucky there was no sensitive information contained in the email.

In the article I posted it especially warns about replying to emails when you have drink on board, I bet some people have sent abusive emails to their boss and not even remembered it until they get the beckoning finger to go to the boss's office on a Monday morning

I sometimes think that many a forum post is alcohol fueled.

My boss and MD once sent an email to a customer. It was one of the most embarrasing I have ever seen. I suspect he had been supping a glass of wine or two that evening.

That's bound to happen, I have seen one or two distinctive drunk while typing (DWT) on the forum but not for a while

They should know better, you tend to become a little braver when you have drink inside you as we all know.

or how about facebook chat ? so easy to type and send in the wrong box if your chatting to more than one person at the same time.

Its not so much the client software Timmers but the environment. In order for it to work you have to be using Active Directory (using MS Exchange mail server). Its Microsofts environment for the office or factory. Users log into the AD and they are then authenticated as a valid user. That was probably the setup in Johns previous job or that's what it sounds like from the description.

So for me sat at home not connected to any works/office server I cannot use this facility, I was thinking that maybe the later versions of Outlook had some sort of setup in the options menu, obviously not

Yes an MS Exchange account is required.

I normally surmise that point is reached when you start threading Scottish wording into your postings.