You send an e-mail message, asking your co-workers to review the sales figures for this year. After you send the message, the flood begins — "What attachment?" "I didn't get the attachment!" "Can you resend the attachment?"
How can you undo your error? You want to recall the original message, then resend it with the missing attachment. For all of your co-workers who haven't opened the message yet, you can play an e-mail sleight of hand and replace the original message with one containing the attachment.
Do the following:
1.In Mail, in the Navigation Pane, click Sent Items.
2.Open the message you want to recall or replace.
3.On the Actions menu, click Recall This Message.
4.Click Delete unread copies and replace with a new message.
Note If you are sending the message to a large number of people, you may want to consider clearing the Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient check box.
5.Click OK, and then type a new message and include the attachment.
6.Click Send.
In another scenario, you accidentally send a message announcing a party for your staff that afternoon. A thoughtful gesture on your part; however, the surprise party isn't until next week. Oops. You want to recall the message, and not replace the message at this time.
Do the following:
1.In Mail, in the Navigation Pane, click Sent Items.
2.Open the message you want to recall or replace.
3.On the Actions menu, click Recall This Message.
I don't see Recall This Message on the Actions menu
Make sure you are in the Sent Items folder. The command will also not appear if you are using a POP3, IMAP, or HTTP e-mail account, including MSN Hotmail.
4.Click Delete unread copies of this message.
Note If you are sending the message to a large number of people, you may want to consider clearing the Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient check box.
Select whether only to delete the message or to delete and replace the message.
Select the check box to receive a confirmation that the recall was successful
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