Deleting An Email You Have Sent

[Theblip]

Is it possible to delete an email you have sent somebody when it’s already reached them....without them knowing?

[TheChair]

No. Unless you're good at breaking and entering.

[emmie]

not a chance

[Theblip]

That’s what I thought, but I’m absolutely sure an important email I received has been deleted...and not by me

[emmie]

ghouls in the house, oooh er

[waterboatman]

Speak to the spook.

[murraymints]

if anybody knows your e mail provider and passwords then yes !

[kwillmott]

Hi Theblip
I had a strange thing similar last week where an email 'disappeared'. After alot of searching I found that it was stuck in the 'out' but had not been sent. I didn't know about the out box, I always look in the sent folder. Also it may have been mis detected as spam? Just an idea.

[Peter Pedant]

so - - blip has made a bloooop !
some email systems allow you to suck it back so long as it hasnt been read

I am careful to do that now since my employer ciruclated a psychiatric report to all the employees - they were gonna fire her.

[Peter Pedant]

oh - mozilla that happens a lot
and watching very carefully once

it went from inbox into delete and then disappeared from there

if it is that impt - legal etc - open it - control P - select print to pdf and post the result to desktop for later storage

( I hvae to say I think it isusually me)

[bednobs]

on outlook there is an option to do it, or to replace the email with a new one. However, the receiver can see you have done so

[ToraToraTora]

look in the deleted folder, most email servers keep deleted emails for a few days at least. Or maybe it's in the junk folder??

[talhaaxhar]

No you can't there is no use of it deleting it.
Thanks and have nice day.

[Prudie]

Some of these answers are untrue. In MS Outlook the sender can recall an email without the receiver knowing as long as they haven't opened it. They will not get a message saying it's been recalled it will just disappear. It doesn't work if the receiver has opened it though. I know I'm correct as I use this feature quite often at work.

[bednobs]

me too prudie, but I definitely find the process hit and miss

[Prudie]

Yes you either get a message recall success or failure (as the sender). I have just done a practice with my husband as we're both currently logged into our work's system. I sent him an email. He saw it in his inbox but didn't open it as instructed. I then recalled it. I got a message of success and he got nothing except my mail had disappeared from his inbox, so he could have been none the wiser :-)

[Naheed]

Sorry, you cannot delete an email that you have sent. Gmail does not have a cancel option; however, it has just an Undo Send option, which works only for a minute. You can’t do that without access to that inbox.