How to unsend a sent e mail

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How do you unsend an e mail you just sent?
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If you are using MS Exchange and the recipient hasn't read it yet (i.e.,
opened it in any way), and if they sort the list by most recent so the
original e-mail doesn't happen to get highlighted first (i.e., opened)
before the recall request message, and so on (i.e., recall is VERY
flaky), you aren't going to stop your sent message. Actually, from what
I've found at Microsoft and other MVPs, you don't need exchange. The
recall request is a special message with a header that gets used to
delete the message if you haven't opened it but both sender and
recipient must be using Outlook (support might vary depending on
versions). However, I haven't ever gotten it to work but maybe once and
that was in a test case of sending test e-mails to myself and then
trying to recall them.

Once you release that e-mail, it isn't yours to control anymore. The
chance of a recall working is extremely slim. It's gone, you're SOL.
Next time, comtemplate what you send before sending it, and make sure
the recipients are actually who you want to receive that message. Once
the bullet leaves the barrel, you're no longer in control of it, and
it's highly unlikely you can intercept it with an even faster bullet.
 
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