How to recall a sent email message in Outlook

Microsoft lets you ‘unsend’ or recall sent email messages using Outlook 2016 for Windows — if you meet a very specific set of requirements.

We’ve all been there. You had a bad day… maybe a bad week (or year). You couldn’t take it anymore. Maybe you had one too many bottles of… soda and then fired off a nasty message to your boss or to a customer. Maybe you just forgot to include an important attachment or didn’t run a spell check, and your message was riddled with elementary-school grammar errors.

Whatever the reason, you need to recall an email message you sent using Outlook. Unfortunately, unlike some other common mail clients that make it very simple to quickly “unsend” or “undo” sent email messages, such as Gmail, the process is a bit more complicated in Outlook. However, it’s not impossible to recall a sent email using Outlook, at least not if you fit can check the following boxes:

Source: Windows Central