oh.
my.
god.
y'all.
Can somebody please reassure me that MS Outlook's "recall message" function might actually work? 'cause I just emailed a tax organizer with my name, date of birth, SSN, bank account number, and last year's gross salary to a client instead of to our receptionist.
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I might be completely off base here, but I think the recall function only works for e-mail address which reside on a common exchange server.
Since your client would most likely have his/her/their own e-mail server (separate from your business), I think you might be out of luck.
If I'm wrong, then you just need to hope that they didn't open the e-mail before you initiated the recall process.
In any case, you might be offered a new job once this client sees how underpaid you are.
Ben is basically correct here, but the recall still should have worked, even for an email address not on the CES, IF the recipient hadn't already opened it, in which case you should have received some sort of message indicating the email couldn't be recalled.
If you didn't get one of those, then you should be okay.
The client replied, don't worry about the goof, I'd rather get too many emails from my accountant than too few! She did not mention whether she had managed to open the message and steal my identity.
For what it's worth, the recall function absolutely doesn't work beyond the local server. Mostly because you can't be sure what server the recipient of the mail is running, and there's a good chance it's not Exchange.
Sorry to hear about the mis-send, and hopefully your client is the honest, shred-the-evidence type. ;)
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