

Everything necessary was professionally obtained and the card was secretly passed around behind Shaun's back so that all colleagues could sign it.Īnd then: With the meeting invitation the whole situation got fubar! The colleague (whose name we will still not mention here 😉) sent an Outlook invitation to all involved colleagues as well as the birthday boy. The complete organization of the gifts, the greeting card and the scheduling was taken over by another colleague (no names!). Now it was a question of finding a common date for a serenade at his workplace and the handover of the presents. As it should be for great colleagues, we combined our contributions and got some great gifts for him. Last week it was my famous colleague Shaun's birthday. If the recipient opens the original e-mail first then the recall will fail.Did you ever send a Microsoft Outlook message or meeting invitation to the wrong person(s)? I'll show you today what options you have to get your head out of the noose.If the recipient opens the recall message first, the original message will be deleted.If the recipient has defined a rule stating that both e-mails should be stored in the same folder, then it depends which e-mail is opened first.
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Scenario 4: An inbox rule moves both the original e-mail and the recall e-mail to a different folder. If the recipient has defined a rule, which means that the original e-mail and the recall e-mail will be stored in different folders, the recall will fail.Scenario 3: An inbox rule moves the original e-mail to another folder. If the recipient opens the original e-mail first, the recall will be unsuccessful.If the recipient opens the message about the recall first, the original message will be deleted, meaning the recall was a success.Whether the recall is successful or not depends on which e-mail is opened first: If the recipient has not enabled the “Automatically process meeting requests and responses to meeting requests and polls” feature, both the original message and the message about the recall will be stored in the recipient’s inbox. Scenario 2: The “Automatically process meeting requests and responses to meeting requests and polls” feature is disabled.

However, the recipient will be informed that you attempted to recall the message.

