You actually can with internal email and GroupWise (who the hell uses that anymore). You recall it and it just disappears out of the recipients inbox.
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Outlook for Mac 2016 Gaining Delivery Notifications, Send Later Option, and More
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It still misses tons of the features that are available in the Windows version. After using it for an year, I've decided that I would rather use Apple Mail, at least there is a beauty in its simplicity. Nowadays I only use Outlook for Mac to setup WebEx meetings.
You can with Outlook (Windows) with an Exchange server too - as long as the recipient hasn't opened it.
I'm not broken up on Outlook not supporting Server 2010/2013. I'm running Server 2016 in my company now, plus O365. Mainstream support for 2010 ended 2-1/2 years ago and will end for 2013 in about 9 months - as a business owner I wouldn't spend any money on writing software for a product with an EOL under a year, especially given that there's millions of users not to be "talking" to that soon-to-be-EOL backend, a big waste of resources and we knew 3 years ago what Server 2013's end date will be. I'm not a fan of the Mac version but that's not a reason I would pan the app.
I am glad that I have a dedicate windows PC for various windows only applications or windows superior applications. Microsoft suite is one of them.
I don’t use outlook much on either iOS or Mac OS X. Just apple mail on OS X and outlook on windows. Already found outlook in Mac is a hell of a mess.
Will be glad to see that feature available under my personal office 365 enterprise e3 subscription.
I don’t use outlook much on either iOS or Mac OS X. Just apple mail on OS X and outlook on windows. Already found outlook in Mac is a hell of a mess.
Will be glad to see that feature available under my personal office 365 enterprise e3 subscription.
I thought it asked the user to withdraw it? I GroupWise didn't care. You open it and it will make it disappear!
I'd just like to see, you know, Microsoft products working with Microsoft Products. My primary email is an hotmail address, but I can't sync the calendar with Outlook for Mac. Works great with gmail though! ugh...
By "user" you mean the recipient? If so, no, there was no asking if you wanted to let the message be recalled - it just disappeared from your inbox and the sender got a message if the email was successfully recalled. I've been retired since Jan 2015 and haven't had the pleasure of using Windows/Outlook/Exchange since then, so maybe the behavior has changed, but I doubt it.
I didn't list the GW exception because I don't think anyone uses it anymore. And with Outlook if you recall an internal email it just send a message asking the other person to delete the message it doesn't really removed it.
It is still a useful feature even if you cannot always delete the email from people's inbox, since it visibly marks the email which tells the recipients that it can be disregarded.
I've been employed at a very large company, where Exchange/Outlook powers a daily deluge of email. Nothing guarantees that an email will be read like a "recall" notice. And not just pixel-level scrutiny, but plenty of hallway conversation and IM chatter. Really, the priority-level settings should be labeled "Standard, Urgent, and Recall."
I guess that's true on macOS, but not iOS. Also really easy to miss since you have to click the paper clip (which also auto-hides).
True, in Apple Mail on iOS the attachment management so far is limited, indeed. But I thought we were discussing Outlook and Mail for MacOS.
Anyway, it's also true that in the (now not so) recent versions of Mail for MacOS, this popup menu autohides and as such it's much too easy to miss it. I must say I seldom use it anyway, but I thought it may be useful to remind less savvy users that it is indeed here, if needed.
