Every individual and company utilize Outlook, which is one of the most well-known free mail service providers, in order to send mail to recipients in a safe and secure manner. In the course of using, you may occasionally have the experience that you send a message to a recipient and then notice there is a grammatical error, or that you forget to attach a file, or that you sent it to the wrong person, or that you used some unprofessional words, etc., in which case you would like to delete that message, unsend it, or resend it by correcting those errors.
If it is something you wish to do, then you have come to the right place. In today's lesson, you will learn how to undo an unsent email in Outlook.
Before proceeding further into the process you must have the following things for unending mail in Microsoft Outlook with Outlook Recall Features.
1 You and the recipients must be using Exchange Account or Microsoft 365 and should both works within the same company/tenant and has the same Exchange Organization.
Suppose you want to send mail to Gmail from outlook then recall does not work.
2 It works only on outlook installed on your computer or Microsoft 365. So, recipients must use the installed version of outlook. Outlook on the web or via EAS on a tablet or smartphone does not work. Also, Recipients must have an outlook running.
3 If the receivers have already opened the mail then unsend cannot be performed.
4 Recalling process only works if recipients receive mail in the inbox folder. If he/she has used action rules and moved mail outside the inbox then recall does not work.
Using Recall Features.
I like to send to mail to my friend by attaching a file as shown below.
And send it and outlook sends me a success message. Suddenly I notice that the mail has no attachment so I want to edit that mail and attach a file. So here are the steps I will perform.
1 Goto Send Items and double click on mail you want to edit.
2 Goto File and click on "Resend or Recall".Then click on "Recall This Message..." from the dropdown.
3 Select "Delete unread copies and replace with a new message" and then click on the Ok button
Now, you will be able to edit your mail. So just add an attachment to it. and then click on "Send"
4 After a few minutes (around less than 2 minutes), you will get notified that the recall has been successful in Send Items label. As shown below.
5 Now the recipients will receive only the latest version of mail.
Alternatives
Alternative solutions to Recall and unsend messages you can set the delivery time when to send the outlook mail. For this steps are as follows.
By this method, you can set a date and time but If you want to send a message after 5 minutes of clicking the sent button then you can do it as follows.
Defer Delivery of Mail in Outlook
1 Goto Home and Click on Rules and then select Manage Rules & Alert from the dropdown.
2 Select Email and then click on the New Rule label
3 Click on Apply rule on messages | send option under Start from a blank rule and then click on Next
6 There set Defer delivery time. For now, I have set 5 minutes and then click on the Ok button.
7 Click on Next and Next and give the name for the rules and then click on the Finish button.
