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Technology makes life easier and more convenient. Many things have become even very simple. On the one hand, this is good, but on the other hand, it has become much easier for us to do stupid things. Who hasn't sent an email to the wrong person or made a private message public on a social network? These little mistakes can be disastrous, but if you take care of your security system, you won't be biting your elbows later on how to delete a text message or cancel an email.

Let's be honest, most of these mistakes could have been avoided by not being distracted by extraneous objects. But each of us has times of heavy workload or depression, when it becomes difficult to control our actions. We don't always pay close attention to what we do ourselves, no one is able to maintain a high degree of vigilance throughout the day, seven days a week. In this article, I will talk about how to delete an inadvertent text message or cancel an email.

Short text messages

Smartphone users can install a special program that delays the sending of SMS for a certain time, giving us the opportunity to come to our senses and cancel. For Android, you can use Undo SMS to make it your default short text messaging app. An app with a similar name, SMS Undo, would have been suitable for the iPhone, but it no longer exists. If you don't mind jailbreak, then look in Cydia for SMS Delay or confirmSMS. Both programs create a pause between clicking on the "Send" button and actually sending a text message. There are other programs with similar functionality, but they do not replace the standard tool, so users tend to forget that they only need to send messages through them.

This decision cannot be considered as absolute, since we are given only a delay in order to change our minds. But often it is in the first seconds and minutes after sending a text message that we realize that we have made a mistake.

There is another "hot" way to cancel. If you've just sent a message and realize there's something wrong with it, quickly put your handset into airplane mode. It is possible that the connection will be disconnected before the message is sent to the addressee. Before you reconnect your phone to the network, be sure to delete the erroneous message.

Email

If you receive a message that an email has been sent, then it is almost impossible to cancel. In the web interface, the disappearance of a message from the screen after clicking on the "Send" button means that it is already on its way to its addressee. Deleting messages from the outbox does not solve the problem. The recipient will have his own copy, which he manages independently. You can't really do anything with it.

Users Gmail service may set a delay before sending, allowing to correct the situation. To activate it, go to your Gmail account settings, go to the Lab section, and turn on “Cancel Send Email”. After that, in the General section, set the delay time in the "Enable unsubmit function" field. Now, you have some time to click on the "Cancel" button after sending the email. Again, this will not solve all problems, but it can help out in many situations.

Microsoft Outlook offers a different feature which it calls Recall. This does not create a delay in sending the message, but sends a request to the recipient's server to delete the email. There is even the possibility of replacing the deleted letter with its new version. This method does not work with all servers, but you can click on the small checkbox to see if it will work in this case. If you need to delete an email sent via Outlook, find it in your Sent Items folder and on the More Actions toolbar, click Cancel this message.

Cancel social media posts

AT in social networks people make mistakes no less often than in the case of SMS or email. They send messages to the wrong people, annoying errors are found in the text, and so on. All this can lead to unpleasant consequences, which are better to prevent than to deal with the problems that have arisen. One of the most notable missteps of this kind cost Anthony Weiner's political career. Probably,
your losses will not be so huge, but why do you need them?

Facebook

The privacy setting allows you to prevent most private messages sent via Facebook from appearing in the public domain. Do the following:

1. Click on the gear in the upper right corner, which is displayed on almost all pages of the social network;
2. Select the item Privacy;
3. In the "Who can see my content" section, look under "Who can see your posts in the future?" You can choose among the options: "Available to everyone", "Friends", "Only me", etc. To do this, click on the edit button. By selecting "Only to me", you will make your messages invisible to others by default.
4. After that, you will be forced to specifically indicate in each message whether it will be available publicly (or a limited circle of people). Not very comfortable? But very safe!

A special confirmation of the publication in the public domain makes us once again think about whether we want someone other than us to see it. It is best to learn how to manage your privacy on Facebook, Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte and other social networks from the official guides. Over time, changes may be made to them and this or that information may become outdated.

As for private messages on social networks, although they can be deleted after sending, a copy will still remain with a friend. Why? Because the delete function in this case is absolutely useless. Therefore, be careful when preparing and before sending messages to your friends. I do not know of any way that would help in that situation if you want to delete an already sent message. Is it possible to get into the account of another person and delete your message on his behalf. Each of us has a brain, so we turn it on and predict the consequences of our actions so that we don’t regret what we did later.

Twitter

Twitter has a few more options than Facebook. Here you can always delete your messages, so you can write whatever you want with a pure soul, and then take the words back (in most cases). This also applies to addressed messages. Of course, if people read something in their feed, then even after deleting the message, it will remain in their memory. Remember this!

Posting delay to any network

If you are accustomed to think long and hard about the written and sent message, no matter what service you use, then you can use a delayed publication service, such as Buffer. It allows you to set a schedule for each day so you know exactly when your tweets or status updates will be posted. Publications will be sent to the address automatically, and until that moment you will have time to re-read and think everything over a hundred times. Depending on your character traits, you can give yourself a reprieve of a few minutes, hours or days.

If none of this worked

If, despite implementing all these recommendations, you notice that you often send letters and messages that you later regret, then you need to take care of developing some good habits. Whenever you click on the "Submit" button, pause for a few minutes. Take a break, then re-read your message, check the recipient's address. It cannot be guaranteed that by doing this you will be 100% insured against mistakes, but the conscious implementation of the “ritual” described above reduces the risks many times over.

But what if you sent something really terrible, and nothing can be deleted or canceled? There are two options: to pretend that it was a joke (maybe not a very successful one, but a joke), or to confess everything and ask for forgiveness for the oversight. Nobody is immune from mistakes. We must be able to recognize them and correct the situation.

And how do you get out of a situation when you realize that you sent the wrong message or the wrong person?

Sometimes some letters in the mail client are sent by mistake. The addressee may be wrong, you may forget to attach an attachment, or there may be a grammatical inaccuracy. If you catch yourself in time, you can try to urgently recall the mail message. Below I will talk about how to do it in the Outlook mail client.

There are a number of restrictions on email retraction in Outlook. The mail message will be revoked if:

• the recipient of the letter also uses the Outlook mail client, but not any other (Thunderbird, the Bat, Mailbird);
• the letter has not yet been read by the addressee (even in the Preview panel);
• the message was sent to a mailbox that uses an exchange server (or company address), and not to a regular web address analogous to Outlook or Gmail;
• the message has not been moved from the inbox to any other directory;
• the recipient is logged into the server.

If all these conditions are satisfied, you can safely proceed to the instructions for returning the letter.

How to revoke an email in Outlook 2003?

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In Outlook 2003, the method of recalling a letter looks a little pretentious and archaic, although all the tools for this are present in the application and are more than available.

Revoking an email in Outlook 2007

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In version mail client In 1999, the letter recall mechanism acquired more modern features and got rid of many inconvenient and unnecessary elements. First of all, the basic principle has not changed much, but has only become more intuitive and understandable. Secondly, the graphic scheme of the mail client itself has been changed, as a result of which the interface has become more pleasant and transparent visually.

The instruction itself looks like this:

Email recall principle in Outlook 2010, 2013

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In the release of the mail client in 2010, the letter recall mechanics were slightly redesigned. Perhaps you can even say that Microsoft managed to complicate this procedure even a little: I don’t know what they were guided by in this.

A secondary option is to report the result of the revocation for each of the recipients. If there are a lot of recipients of the e-mail, you should not check this box. Use it only when one or two people have received the message.

In Outlook 2013, the technique for recalling erroneously sent emails was transferred with absolute accuracy from the previous build of the product, so I will not dwell on this in detail.

When you recall a message from mailboxes of recipients who haven't opened it yet, the message you sent will be received. You can also replace alt text. For example, if you forgot to include an attachment, you can try to revoke the message and send it a replacement message with an attachment.

Message feedback is available after clicking the button Send and will only be available if you and the recipient have an Office 365 or Microsoft Exchange email account in the same organization.

Revocation and replacement of a message

Revocation check

The result of a message revocation depends on Outlook settings on recipient computers. The table below shows five scenarios:

Action	Result
Tracking checkbox is checked. Note: File > Options > Mail. Skip to section Tracking.	Note:
An e-mail message is sent. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one. On the recipient's computer, under Tracking unchecked Automatically process requests and responses to meeting requests and polls. Note: To view this option, select File > Options > Mail. Skip to section Tracking.	The original message and the recall message go to the Inbox on the recipient's computer. Note: When processing a retract message, if the original message is marked as read (an email viewed in the Reading Pane is not considered read in this scenario), the recipient is notified that the sender wants to delete the message. However, the message remains in the recipient's Outlook folder.
An e-mail message is sent. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one. On the recipient's computer, the original message is moved from the Inbox to another folder manually or by using a rule, while the revocation message remains in the Inbox (or is also moved to another folder).	If the original message and the revocation message are in different folders, the recipient is notified that the revocation attempt failed. This happens regardless of your Outlook settings and the read status of the message.
An e-mail message is sent. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one. On the recipient's computer, both messages are moved to the same folder manually or by using a rule. As a result, Outlook behaves in the same way as if it had not been configured to process messages automatically.	When this occurs, the following occurs on the recipient's computer.
An email message is sent to a public folder. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one.	In this case, the following occurs. If the recipient reading the revocation message has read access to all public folder items but has not read the original message, the revocation succeeds and only the new message remains. The sender is notified of a successful revocation. If a user with any other public folder access rights opens a revocation message, the revocation is not performed and the user is notified of this. Both messages remain in the public folder.

Revocation and replacement of a message

If you don't see commands, you probably don't have account Exchange Server or you are not using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. They are required to recall messages.

This can be found in the dialog box. Account Settings in Outlook.

Revocation check

The result of retracting a message depends on the recipient's settings in Microsoft Outlook. The following describes various situations, including the recall of a message sent to a Microsoft Exchange public folder.

Action	Result
On the recipient's computer, under Tracking Options checkbox is checked. Service click Options and Email Options and then select Tracking Options.)	The original message and the recall message go to the Inbox on the recipient's computer. If the original message has not been read, it is deleted and the recipient is notified that the sender has deleted the message from their mailbox. Note: When processing a retract message, if the original message is marked as read (an email viewed in the Reading Pane is not considered read in this scenario), the recipient is notified that the sender wants to delete the message. However, the message remains in the recipient's Outlook folder.
You are sending an email message to another user. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one. On the recipient's computer, under Tracking Options checkbox not checked Handle requests and responses upon arrival. (To view this option, in the menu Service click Options and Email Options and then select Tracking Options.)	The original message and the recall message go to the Inbox on the recipient's computer. If the recipient opens the recall message first, the original message is deleted and the recipient is notified that the sender has deleted the message from their mailbox. If the recipient opens the original message first, no revocation occurs, resulting in both messages being available. Note: When processing a retract message, if the original message is marked as read (an email viewed in the Reading Pane is not considered read in this scenario), the recipient is notified that the sender wants to delete the message. However, the message remains in the recipient's Outlook folder.
You are sending an email message to another user. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one. On the recipient's computer, the original message is moved to another folder manually or by using a rule, while the revocation message remains in the Inbox (or is also moved to another folder).	If the original message and the new message are in different folders, the recipient is notified that the revocation attempt failed. This happens regardless of your Outlook settings and the read status of the message. The recipient has access to both the original message and the new message. Note: If the recipient reads the original message and marks it as unread, the message is considered unread and revocation succeeds.
You are sending an email message to another user. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one. On the recipient's computer, both messages are moved to the same folder manually or by using a rule. As a result, the same actions occur as if automatic message processing had not been configured.	The following happens on the recipient's computer: If the recipient opens the recall message first, the original message is deleted and the recipient is notified that the sender has deleted the message from their mailbox. If the recipient opens the original message first, no revocation occurs and both messages are available as a result. Note: If the recipient reads the original message and marks it as unread, the message is considered unread and revocation succeeds.
You send an email message to a public folder. The original message is retracted and replaced with the new one.	One of the following will be done: If the recipient reading the new message has read access to all public folder items but hasn't read the original message, the revocation succeeds (only the new message remains). The sender is notified of a successful revocation. If the recipient has already marked the original message as read, the recipient is notified that the revocation failed and only the revocation message is deleted as a result. If a user with any other public folder access rights opens a new message, revocation is not performed and the user is notified of this. Both messages remain in the public folder. If the recipient reads the original message and marks it as unread, the message is considered unread and revocation succeeds. For public folders, successful revocation depends on the rights of the recipient, not the sender.

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Have you ever sent emails to the wrong address? Or incompletely filled messages, for example, forgetting to add an attachment? If yes, then this article is for you.

Popular email services offer the option to unsend an email. It works for a short period of time, but, as a rule, it is enough to understand that the letter was sent to the wrong place or ahead of time. If you do not understand this right away, then it will be pointless to cancel the sending, the addressee can read your message earlier.

Cancel in Gmail

In the mail service from Google, the function to cancel sending a letter until recently worked in experimental mode and was not available to everyone. Now there are no restrictions on its use, and if it is suddenly not activated by default, you can enable it manually.

You can set up an autoresponder for a vacation period not only through Outlook. In some cases, auto-reply is much more convenient to use through the Gmail service.

This is done through the “Settings” - in the “General” tab, find the “Cancel sending” section and check the box “Enable the cancel sending function”. Here you can also set the period of time during which it will be possible to return your letter. By default, this value is ten seconds, if necessary, increase it to 30 seconds. After that, at the bottom of the page, click the "Save Changes" button.

Now, when sending a message prematurely, there will be no reason to worry. At least during the time set in the settings. After clicking the "Send" button (or using the Ctrl + Enter key combinations), a special link will appear at the top of the window, by clicking on which you can cancel sending the letter. The link will be available for the specified time.

An advantageous advantage of the Gmail service in this sense is the ability to cancel the sending of a letter, regardless of which address it was sent to. However, to use this option, you must send messages directly through the web interface. When sending from desktop mail applications, it will no longer be possible to return the letter.

Cancel in Outlook

Microsoft's email client also allows you to unsend emails. However, you should immediately note that we are talking only about corporate mail using the Microsoft Exchange protocol, and you can cancel the action only if the letter was sent to a user using the same server as you. That is, the history is purely intra-corporate. But it is very relevant if you send an important letter to management.

Instructions for setting up an email address in Microsoft Outlook 2016.

To cancel, go to the Sent folder (sent), double-click on the sent letter. In the window that opens with the letter in the ribbon menu in the "Message" tab, we are looking for the "Move" area. Click on the "Actions" button and select "Recall message" from the drop-down list.

You will receive a notification that some recipients may have already read this message, but if you act as quickly as possible, you will significantly reduce this likelihood. You will be offered several undo actions to choose from - "Delete unread copies" and "Delete unread copies and replace them with new messages." If the letter has already been opened, then it will not be possible to cancel its sending.

Also, if you check the "Report the result of the revocation for each recipient" checkbox, you will receive a notification about how successful the attempt to unsend the message was.

If you have multiple email addresses and log in to different sites each time to check each one, it makes sense to consider collecting mail on one account. For example, in Gmail.

Another option in which canceling the sending of a corporate letter will not work is the case when the recipient has automatically configured rules for sorting messages. Let's say a rule is set for your address, according to which a letter from the Inbox folder is automatically moved to some other specially created one.

Retract email in Outlook it is necessary if the information is no longer relevant, mistakes were made when writing the letter or new data appeared that affected the text of the message. Obviously, you can only revoke a letter if it has not been read by the end user. Cancellation of sending or replacement of information can be performed in each version of the system, it is only important to know how to perform the procedure.

How to Retract an Email in Outlook 2003 Mail

There are ways to revoke a sent email in the 2003 program, but the procedure is somewhat more complicated than in newer versions. The reason for the difficulty is that there are various restrictions that can prevent cancellation.

Important! If the recipient sets up an instant notification system for all letters coming to the mail, it is impossible to undo the sending.

It will be impossible to cancel the message if the message contains attachments or redirection is used through external mail services, other resources, for example, Hotmail.

So initially you need to determine that the letter is sent directly to the mailbox through the exchange function. To do this, you need to open the information about sending and pay attention to the addressee field, there should be an email address.

To cancel, you need to do the following manipulations:

1. Go to the section containing the sent letter and click on it;
2. At the top of the application window is the "Actions" tab, you need to expand it and select "Recall message". If everything went well, the letter will be deleted, and a sending error will appear in the status;

1. To edit the text, you need to click on "Send again", so the editor will start before sending.

You can find out that the letter was not sent in the dialog. If everything went well, the dialog will be updated with an error message.

How to revoke an email in Outlook 2007

The 2007 version of the program contains almost all modern functions that are still built into the application. Cancellation of a message in this version is as simple as possible.

1. Initially, you need to go to the folder where the message you want to cancel is located;
2. At the top of the program is the tab "Other actions", you need to click on the element;
3. Then select the item "Recall message";

1. You will be prompted to completely delete the letter from the recipient's mailbox or replace it with another one.

To determine the status of the message, you need to click on the menu item "Tracking". If the message is revoked, a notification will appear that the message was not received by the user.

To find letters that have been forwarded to the addressee, you need to go to the "Sent" section. To recall a message, you need to go to the specified category, the navigation is located to the left of the workspace. After the letter has been found, you need to run:

1. Click on the "File" tab;
2. Select the "Details" option;
3. A list of options for actions will appear on the right; to perform the manipulation, you need to select an item that offers resending or recall;
4. After a short time, a window will open to select the type of manipulation (revoke or replace).

If the user has chosen to replace the message, the program will prompt him to change the text and attachments in the same way as the letter is sent for the first time.

To make sure that the action was completed successfully, you need to go to the "Report" section. This reports the status of the message when you click on "Tracking". If it says that the email was sent successfully, then the action failed. If it says that a failure has occurred, the procedure was successful.

The principle of manipulation latest version has not changed, the procedure is almost the same. To revoke a notification through Outlook 2017, you need to run:

1. Find a message in the "Sent" category;
2. Click on the "File" menu;
3. Select "Details" from the menu;
4. In the column "Replanning" below is the item "Resend", you need to click on it;
5. In the drop-down list at the bottom, click on "Recall letter".

If the message just needs to be corrected, then in the last step you need to click on "Send again". In this case, a separate page will load with the ability to edit content.

Important! To find out whether the user received the message or was able to withdraw it, you can open the Tracking item in the "Parameters" section, where you can set a selection next to the options with receiving notifications about the delivery and reading of letters.

How to cancel an email through a browser?

Outlook mail can be used not only through the application client, but also through the web interface of the resource. You can access it just by logging into Microsoft through the site:

1. Launch desktop browser;
2. Go to https://outlook.live.com/mail/#/inbox ;
3. Enter the address of the mail account and go to the next window;

1. Enter your account password.

1. After loading the page, you need to select the appropriate letter;
2. An active “Cancel” button will appear at the top;
3. Select the type of cancellation: complete removal or replacement.

Important! The modern version of the Outlook site has expanded its capabilities and allowed you to recall messages even from the Gmail service. The function is only effective if the message was originally sent via the browser.

Why can't the letter be revoked?

It is not always possible to undo sending a message. There are certain situations that prevent the ability to perform an action and these include:

• The recipient of the message is using an alternative mail service. That is, you can only revoke a letter within the outlook.com domain;
• Offline work configured. The system automatically processes messages, so reading is almost instantaneous;
• The recipient has caching installed, which ensures the storage of all incoming data. In this case, the recipient will be able to read even the withdrawn letter;
• The letter was read before the sender started the response.

In addition to the cases listed above, it is possible to recall a message without much difficulty.

Before sending a message, it is worth checking the relevance of the information and weighing the correctness of the letter, this will help to change the content even before sending. If a misfire still happened, you need to withdraw the message as soon as possible.

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