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Originally posted by ReuvenNY
This is a philosophical question - at what point the email is yours (originator) as opposed to the receipient's. I agree with you: once you send it - it's their's. AOL thinks the other way - what you have not seen yet - is not yours.
My comments above were to clarify that the message AOL allowes you to Unsend is not in the receipient's Inbox when that happens.
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Just for the record, Outlook with Exchange works the same way. You can delete mail you sent on the server BEFORE it has been delievered.
It was the most common metaphor for mail before the current internet model became the standard, and still is desirable for workgroup sized mail.
In this case, AOL has spent years making big server farms to support the way AOL mail works, which was defined in like 1983, and that's the way it works. Sure, I might want to copy a mail into a folder via IMAP, but that's not the way AOL has worked.
AOL is doing mail the AOL way.
No surprise.