Email unsent?

Giant Baby

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Okay, I'm sure the issue here is me, but for the sake of my sanity, I've gotta ask.

I opened an email this morning on my phone (it had just come through, as I heard the alert) and was quickly interrupted as I started to read. I opened the inbox again about five minutes later, and the email there was completely different from the few words I would swear I'd read before the interruption.

I've done some googling and notice apps that allow a user to "unsend" emails when downloaded to their phones, and some email programs allow for an unsend within a short amount of time (like, 30 seconds), but I've got to assume that's because they delay the original sends, correct? They can't actually follow along and retrieve an already sent email from the inbox can they?

I've just completely lost my mind, right?
 

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yeah you're right. The unsend just delays sending the email, it cant retrieve it from your inbox because it would need your account details and password to do that.

So I'm going with the second option- the loosing your mind thing ;)

Perhaps you started reading from a different place in the email, or a second mail was sent after the first? who knows.
 

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...So I'm going with the second option- the loosing your mind thing ;)

This is usually a pretty safe bet. Thanks for the help!

Ah, sweet querying. I'm only two weeks in, and already I'm hallucinating. Damn it all to hell.
 

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Your phone may also have a feature to only show new messages and file the already read ones in another folder. The message would seem to disappear but that's because the program had flagged it as read.