On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:56:14PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Have you ever wished you could take back something you said? Well
> > > here's some good news: Outlook allows you to recall an email message
> > > that you sent to another Outlook user!
>
> This is a feature of the underlying Exchange protocol. SMTP has no such
> feature.
>
> > But wouldn't that be another nice feature for mutt?
>
> Maybe, but once a message enters an SMTP stream, it tends to get
> delivered permanently. :)
Theoretically, I suppose mutt could send a special message referring to
the message-id of the message you wanted to take back. If the receiving
mutt sees this special message while the first message is still marked
"New", it can delete it.
Frankly, ugh.
David
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