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On 11/10/20 05:42, Jonathan Yong wrote: |
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> Was it just the previous message? I canceled sending the message when I |
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> realized it wasn't signed. Google SMTP must have accepted it anyway. |
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You can't cancel a message. Once it's left your inbox, it's gone. |
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And Google won't/can't do anything (unless the recipient is gmail) |
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because just as it will have gone from your outbox, it will have gone |
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from their system before you've even realised "oh shit I didn't mean to |
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hit send". |
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You're effectively relying on the recipient's mail client to honour a |
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request to throw the previous message away, and many clients either |
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don't honour, or don't even recognise, such a request. |
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That's why a previous mail client of mine (Turnpike), by default, |
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wouldn't empty the outbox until the contents were at least a minute old. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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