unsending an email

[manodivx]

is there a way to unsend an email sent with outlook express? i didnt mean to send it and i sent the wrong one and i need to get rid of it. it hasnt been read yet. any ideas?

[Suzahara]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does this look like? An outlook express forum?

But to answer your question, NO you cannot unsend an e-mail. It's already on the recipients server, and unless you contact the people who run that server or hack into it, you cannot delete a message.

:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

[gldblade]

Short answer: Not possible

Long answer: Yes, but it would take a lot of work. You could hack into your recipient's e-mail and delete it. You could bring down the server where the recipient's e-mail resides.

You could devote the rest of your life to discovering a method of time travel, then travel back in time to prevent yourself from sending it. Of course, you would probably be risking the integrity of the space-time, and you'd end up with a paradoxical situation (since you didn't send the e-mail, you wouldn't have devoted your life to discovering time-travel, thus you wouldn't have gone back to prevent it, thus restarting the cycle.) Oh yeah, this is assuming that time travel is possible in the first place.

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Sigh, took too long to type in a response...

[markrb]

You could devote the rest of your life to discovering a method of time travel, then travel back in time to prevent yourself from sending it.

Now that's funny.

mark

[Hiroaki]

Lol, good one, "unsending" an e-mail. It must've been pretty bad. =)