Any known bugs using Message recall to a large distribution list

Last week a staff member sent an email to a company wide distribution list.
After sending the email they realized they wanted to recall the message. The
message recall seemed to work 50/50.

Our enviorment has two 2003 Exchange servers and one 2007 (all fully
patched). 98% of our users on Outlook 2003 connected to Exchange with MAPI.

Are their any known bugs, gotcha's, or miss configuraiton's that could help
explain the 50% success rate?

Thanks,

CptWeasel

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:20:03 -0700, CptWeasel wrote:

Last week a staff member sent an email to a company wide distribution list.
After sending the email they realized they wanted to recall the message. The
message recall seemed to work 50/50.

Our enviorment has two 2003 Exchange servers and one 2007 (all fully
patched). 98% of our users on Outlook 2003 connected to Exchange with MAPI.

Are their any known bugs, gotcha's, or miss configuraiton's that could help
explain the 50% success rate?

No bugs, that I am aware of. However, even in an environment where recall is
possible, I believe that the recall only works in the case where is it
received before the recipients open the email. If the recall arrives too
late, it fails. Given the nature of email, and the way recall works, I'd say
a 50% success rate is about right.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

50/50 is a very good recall rate. So many things can cause it to fail that
the success rate is often very low.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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"CptWeasel" wrote in message
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Last week a staff member sent an email to a company wide distribution
list.
After sending the email they realized they wanted to recall the message.
The
message recall seemed to work 50/50.

Our enviorment has two 2003 Exchange servers and one 2007 (all fully
patched). 98% of our users on Outlook 2003 connected to Exchange with
MAPI.

Are their any known bugs, gotcha's, or miss configuraiton's that could
help
explain the 50% success rate?

Thanks,

CptWeasel