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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?
Is there a way to invalidate (or pull back) this email and the attachment remotely?
Normally no.
However, some email services have a short window when you can "recall" mail:
gmail - 30 ...
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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?
In a practical way, no.
The situation is analog to regular mail. Once you drop a letter in the mailbox, it is pretty much gone. Now, not discussing the legal aspect, in principle you could remove the ...
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Unix mail command: Sort by newest first
For people still looking for an answer in the base mail application, the best solution I could find is running the h$ command inside mail to jump to the bottom of the list.
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Reorder email accounts in Thunderbird
To do this without a plugin:
Close Thunderbird
Backup your profile directory (and most especially prefs.js)
Using the built-in config editor (or editing prefs.js directly), find the mail....
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What is this red X icon showing in Thunderbird?
Icons in this place show that the message was encrypted and/or digitally signed using S/MIME.
The red cross icon means that there's a problem with the certificate used to sign this message (e.g. it ...
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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?
I know there is a way to invalidate an attachment sent along with the email, but not sure about the email itself.
This, also isn't true. Attachments are just encoded in a way that allows the email ...
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msmtp vs msmtp-mta package, which one to choose?
The Arch Linux Wiki, a great resource in general for all Linux operating systems, explains that msmtp-mta merely creates an alias for sendmail. This means you will have broader support for programs ...
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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?
How to pull back an email that has already been sent?
After it was sent, probably in no way, but
the administrator of the receiving server (who manages the mailbox of the e-mail address of the wrong ...
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How can I pull back an email that has already been sent?
Simply put, you cannot.
Send a follow-up email requesting that the receiver delete the previous communication as it is private information sent in error.
It will be nice if they respond but do not ...
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Reorder email accounts in Thunderbird
Since Thunderbird 91, there is an even simpler way without addons and hacks:
Right-click any account and select 'Settings' from context menu
Drag&drop accounts in the list to the left
Done!
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How can I graph the # of emails I receive per day
There is this nice tool called OutlookStatView made by the awesome guys at NirSoft.
screenshot sample:
It offers Nice aggregation/summarization, also has save (export) to CSV/XML/HTML functionality, ...
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How to get e-mail delivered at specific time, to the second
You can't
Because of how email works, this is entirely impossible.
Your mail client will deliver the message to your server, which will then pass the message on to another server, etc... until ...
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how to change default email client to gmail in chrome
The handler that you have listed is for the webcalendar and is irrelevant to getting gmail set as the default mail client. Please follow these steps:
Navigate to https://mail.google.com and login if ...
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How to undo moving a message to an archive in Thunderbird?
I found this related question: Undo delete / move to trash in Thunderbird.
From what I learned from that, it seems to me like Control+Z does work, but doesn't display the changes. Pressing F5 ...
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How can I graph the # of emails I receive per day
If you have Microsoft Access, in the External Data tab at the top you can click Outlook Folder as a source and pull all the data from an Outlook folder (in your case "Inbox") into a linked Access ...
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Can multiple users share 1 email address with different login credentials?
Gmail has a feature called Email Delegation, which allows you to grant access to your account to other gmail addresses. They won't be able to change any major settings like change your password or ...
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How to add Windows 10 Mail app to the startup?
you cannot drag the mail shortcut from the startmenu. Instead you need to create a desktop shortcut. You can do this by doing Windows + R to open the RUN menu and then typing shell:AppsFolder to open ...
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Multiple mail server provider for one domain is possible?
You can't split different e-mail addresses in the name domain to different e-mail providers just by the use of multiple MX records.
You can have multiple MX records, but they will apply for the whole ...
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msmtp vs msmtp-mta package, which one to choose?
The package description for msmtp-mta documents that it is a wrapper which will pull in msmtp as a dependency anyway.
This package provides the regular MTA program.
This is somewhat obscure, but ...
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How to set time based rules in Outlook
Create a rule to delete mail after a number of days
You can combine a Rules Wizard rule with the AutoArchive feature of
Microsoft Outlook to automatically delete messages as they age. There
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Move to the next mail instead of the previous one when hitting Delete in Claws Mail
Claws Mail 3.13.1 introduced a hidden preference called next_on_delete, designed to let a user control the message selection when deleting emails.
So in order to solve my problem I had to change ...
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In Lotus Notes 9 How do you manually run rules you've written on your inbox, without installing any other plugins / software?
Is there a way to manually run them [rules]?
Yes.
Use the Enable Run Rules On Existing Mail setting in a Mail Settings
policy to enable users to run mail rules on messages that are already
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Make a particular message stand out in MS Outlook
If you can, try webmail application instead regular Outlook. I'm using it since months and I can "pin" messages on folder's top.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-the-web-...
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Does using Windows Live Mail 2012 pose a security risk?
Any program that interacts with content from unknown, possibly malicious actors, like a mail client, needs to be updated from time to time. WLM is out of support. Possibly, it has vulnerabilities - ...
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Multiple mail server provider for one domain is possible?
Can I have a multiple MX records for different mail providers?
No.
How many MX Records can I set up?
Each domain can only have 1 MX record at a time, allowing mail to only be delivered to that one ...
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How to export email addresses from Apple Mail?
I don't know if this was if you were looking for, but google brought me here when I was looking for it, so you can export all mail addresses on your Mail App like this:
sqlite3 -csv ~/Library/Mail/V7/...
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Can I make a shortcut to Send Outlook Email from Template?
If you find the template file in your filesystem (see CharlieRB's answer), then you can drag it to your Taskbar and add it to the Outlook quick menu, so it appears when you right-click. That way it ...
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How to set time based rules in Outlook
If you right click on your 'spam' folder and select Properties, then go to AutoArchive, you should be able to archive emails older than n-days, then select to delete the emails instead of archiving ...
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Automatic notification FROM SERVER when new email arrives
To answer your first question this is called a 'push notification'.
Here is one resource I found on how to enable them http://www.solvemix.com/index.php/android-smartphones/516-samsung-galaxy-s6-gmail-...
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