Email CC Fail!
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Greg66 said:
You're better off setting up a Rule in Outlook to hold items in your outbox for a minute before they are delivered. Gives you some breathing space to get at it after you have hit Send, delete it or amend it.
Good idea. Sometimes I hold e-mails, but not for this reason. I presume it is just as easy to do this for all e-mails>?Gmail has the "undo" option, which you can do for the first 30 seconds or so. Had to use it once after I realised I'd missed out attaching my CV for a job application, despite mentioning I had attached it! Which on another related point gmail will now also say "you wrote the word attactment in the email, but have not added an attachment. Do you wish to do so now?" kind of thing.
Famous Graham said:
Jerwatt said:
Gmail has the "undo" option, which you can do for the first 30 seconds or so
Didn't know that - thanks 
/schoolday
http://mashable.com/2010/08/22/how-to-undo-send-in...
I guess that should tell you how to do it, although I did it a while back so not tried it.
Jerwatt said:
Famous Graham said:
Jerwatt said:
Gmail has the "undo" option, which you can do for the first 30 seconds or so
Didn't know that - thanks /schoolday
http://mashable.com/2010/08/22/how-to-undo-send-in...
I guess that should tell you how to do it, although I did it a while back so not tried it.
2 email f*ck-ups from a department about 10 years ago.
1) Guys gets email from a tech savvy customer and can't answer question - forwards question onto internal, non-custoemr facing very technical team. Internal tech team respond - tell customer to RTFM.
Guy responds to tech savvy customer...
"Dear Mr X,
I have escalated this issue to our tech savvy team and they have informed me the appropriate course of action is RTFM. I do hope this answers your question, however, if you have nay further issues then please do not hesitate to contatc me.
Kind regards
Z."
At which point the MD's phone starts ringing as the sender of the mail had no idea what RTFM meant.
2) Same tech savvy team respond to another query and start their response within the system
"Tell this dozy bird......."
whithout realising that the femnale customer was cc'ed in the system and would therefore receive a copy of the response from the system as an suto-generated email.
Again the MD's phone starts ringing.
1) Guys gets email from a tech savvy customer and can't answer question - forwards question onto internal, non-custoemr facing very technical team. Internal tech team respond - tell customer to RTFM.
Guy responds to tech savvy customer...
"Dear Mr X,
I have escalated this issue to our tech savvy team and they have informed me the appropriate course of action is RTFM. I do hope this answers your question, however, if you have nay further issues then please do not hesitate to contatc me.
Kind regards
Z."
At which point the MD's phone starts ringing as the sender of the mail had no idea what RTFM meant.
2) Same tech savvy team respond to another query and start their response within the system
"Tell this dozy bird......."
whithout realising that the femnale customer was cc'ed in the system and would therefore receive a copy of the response from the system as an suto-generated email.
Again the MD's phone starts ringing.
On the Daily Fail as well - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371253/Sa...
It's on the front page of Telegraph online.
Now, forgive me for saying so, but aren't there more important things to put on the front page of one of the most respected journalistic institutions in the Western World, than a pair of f
king idiots who don't know how to work Outlook?
It wasn't even that amusing. Which says that a large proportion of people on the internet are the same dead-from-the-neck-up tossers that like watching TV and talking endlessly about that.
Now, forgive me for saying so, but aren't there more important things to put on the front page of one of the most respected journalistic institutions in the Western World, than a pair of f
king idiots who don't know how to work Outlook?It wasn't even that amusing. Which says that a large proportion of people on the internet are the same dead-from-the-neck-up tossers that like watching TV and talking endlessly about that.
matthewg said:
Famous Graham said:
The history would have gone with it as chap above said.
There IS facility to recall emails but only in enclosed systems, like AOL (jesus, do people still use that?) and inhouse Exchange/Outlook systems (Notes too iirc). However, that only recalls a message if it's to someone in the same system. It won't recall one going out to an external address.
How do I do this in outlook?There IS facility to recall emails but only in enclosed systems, like AOL (jesus, do people still use that?) and inhouse Exchange/Outlook systems (Notes too iirc). However, that only recalls a message if it's to someone in the same system. It won't recall one going out to an external address.
Although not as 'epic' as some of the other stories here, the admin lady at the place I used to work sent out details, to the whole department, of a spare place on some training course that was happening within the next day or two.
One of the lads then replied to her saying he'd be up for it as he was 'bored sh!tless at work as usual' and would 'give him something to do instead of surfing football websites all day long'.
He had, of course, hit 'reply all' which included all of the Managers and Senior Managers. About 3 minutes later came the "XXXX wishes to recall message re: training course" message but it didn't work whatsoever.
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