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Recall a sent email in Outlook.
Last Updated a year ago
Recall a sent email in Outlook.
If you sent an email in outlook and sent it to the wrong person or wanted to make a change to the email you can recall that so the person you sent it to will, not see it. Note: you must recall the email before they open the email for the email to be recalled successfully.
- To recall an email in outlook, click on your sent items folder. Then double click on the email that you wish to recall and that will open the message in a new window.
- Then click on the more move actions icon in the ribbon. Then click on recall this message.
- In the next window you can select if you want outlook to delete unread copies or delete unread copies and replace with a new message. Then check the checkbox if you want outlook to send you a message about if the recall succeeded or not. Then hit ok.
- If you selected to receive an email from outlook about if the message was recalled the email will look like this.