Summary: Once you hit that "send" button, there is no way to stop your email from being sent, even if it's to the wrong person.
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I wrote an email from my yahoo email account and sent to the wrong email address in Europe. Is it any way that I can retrieve the email I sent from the wrong email address, delete it before the wrong recipient can read my email? |
Unfortunately, the news is not good.
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The answer is quite simply, "no". Once it's sent, it's sent.
The thing to remember here is that once an email leaves your outbox, you lose all control over it. And I do mean all control over it. You cannot stop it, nor can you change it. You cannot track whether it's been read or not. You cannot tell if it's been forwarded or deleted. You can't even know whether it's been received at all unless you hear from the recipient.
So the moral of the story is simple: make sure you really mean it when you hit "Send".
Related:
How does GMail's "undo send" work? GMail added the ability to "undo" a send. I'll look at how it works, and why it's not what people expect.
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How do I get a notification when anyone I send an email to forwards that email? Several urban legends would have you believe that when you forward an email it can somehow be tracked. It cannot. There's no way to know.
Article C2149 - August 7, 2004
Yes, there is a way to get an email back after it's sent. I have found a new web service called YankBack --- Since the rule is no physical addresses, I suggest you google yankback. I use it all the time. Not that I make damaging email mistakes often, but it's handy for the little stuff, like not looking stupid when forgetting to attach something. You can recall or stop the email and just send it again with the attachment in place.
Posted by: Juan Valdez at October 24, 2007 10:48 PMHow can i find out if a hotmail addess to which a message was inadvertently sent is valid? I made a typo and I do not know if the name exists.
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To the best of my knowledge, you cannot. If you don't get a bounce back there's
still no way to tell if an address is valid.
Leo
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This is crap how you can not unsend/retrack and email sent from hotmail. Why is it than if I write the email in MS Office Outlook, I can unsend the email which is configured thru my hotmail account? This doesnt make any sense. Can you shed some light on this.
Posted by: Jake at April 24, 2008 7:27 AMI prepared the final exam for my college students and sent it by mistake to an email whom i dont know his identity!!
Posted by: nina ricci at June 12, 2008 1:35 PMYou could delay sending the message if you use Outlook, not sure how to on a web-mail
Posted by: Sachin S at August 22, 2008 12:19 AMhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP052427901033.aspx
this is the biggest bunch of crap technology to date in this world.. there always should have been parameters set in place where an email can be pulled back if necesarry..with all of the services..
I accidentally sent a note talking about how ghetto fabulous my gym was to a private client of mine and sent it to my sister by mistake and to a black girl oh crap!!!
emails can be good but overall the fact that you cant pull it back is total crap...
hopefully people can have a heart and understand!!! we make mistakes
Posted by: maximumbody at November 29, 2008 2:07 PMHi!
I have a email that is stuck in my outbox and I have been trying to cancel it but it won't cancel as it is busy sending it - is there a way of canceling it?
Thanks for your help,
Carmen
05-Jan-2009
An email I sent with a typo was delayed. I just got notice in my mailbox. Can I cancel the send?
Posted by: Juliana at June 16, 2009 6:03 AMIf you use a software you can track your email but not recall it. Except if you are using the same exchange server.
26-Sep-2009
Posted by: detydfg at September 25, 2009 2:02 PM