Deleting Messages Remotely

[allan]

Some weirdness here, and I am curious as to whether or not anyone has ever heard of something like this.

Is it possible to delete a message remotely after it has been downloaded from the server? Roseanne got a couple of emails yesterday, I see where they were delivered on the server, she read them, but now she cannot find them.

I know you can issue "Recall" messages to Exchange servers, but as far as I know they cannot be retrieved from a remote server, and certainly not from the inbox of someone connected to the server.

I have also heard of messages that include timed instructions to remove themselves, but I thought that only worked on Outlook (she uses The BAT Mailer).


Any thoughts on this?

[Robert]

Unless the program that downloads the messages is set to either 1) keep a copy on the server or 2) remove a copy from the server have x days, I do not think it is possible to delete a message AFTER it has been downloaded.

[allan]

Originally posted by Robert:

Unless the program that downloads the messages is set to either 1) keep a copy on the server or 2) remove a copy from the server have x days, I do not think it is possible to delete a message AFTER it has been downloaded.

That's what I thought too...but the messages are not in her inbox, and they are not in the trash....

[Chicken]

She might be able to 'go back' on her local system and restore her computer to the time she did have the messages?