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How to recall email messages from Lotus Notes

Situation:
I sent an email message from within Lotus Notes.
I need to recall the email message. Can it be done?

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The Outlook recall message is really just another email message saying, "I would like to recall my previous message". So to do the same thing in Notes, just compose a new email and in it, basically manually say that you want to recall your previous message. Pretty simple, really.

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Scott
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If you define your location document to use local mail, your outgoing mail would be stored in mail.box or smtp.box (depending: notes- or webmail).
Untill you replicate (with domino or smtp mailserver) all outgoing messages are stored there.
To recall a message: access the outgoing mail box and delete it.
Still.... once sent (replicated), it's sent!
I've already seen someone removing a mail directly from the server's mail.box, but he's really fast... a few chance for that solution !
If you have access there (higher than depositor, with delete rights) you can do so, if the server doesn't route mail at once. E.g. if it waits for a specified no. of messages....
I consider your changes to do so small to none.
Actually, Scottrma, the Outlook has an actual recall email function.  There's just a few caveats:  1) You both have to be logged on.  2) He has to have NOT read the email yet.

If both of those cases are true, then you can recall the email, and pull it right out of his inbox.