Change your e-mail AFTER you've sent it

Have you ever sent an e-mail and wanted to change it afterward? Maybe said something you wish you hadn't said? Or perhaps it was just an annoying typo? If your mail client is Mozilla Thunderbird for Microsoft Outlook, now you can. See how in this video and then go to http://www.chiaramail.com to download the Dynamic Content add-on for Thunderbird or Outlook. Take control of your e-mail.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Dynamic content
• Thunderbird
• Outlook
• e-mail
• add-on
• add-in
• edit mail
• chiaramail
• single-instance storage
• SIS
• Exchange
• Server

[FractalBob]

Now available for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010. Check it out now!

Coming soon: dynamic content for Thunderbird 3!

[vigcs]

It doesn't work with Thunderbird 3.1.2.

I try to install it but the program says it's incompatible with 3.1.2.

[FractalBob]

@vigcs That is correct: the current version only works with Thunderbird Version 2.

[cbcalkins8620]

Is an entry made in the email header when a change is made using this program ?

[FractalBob]

@cbcalkins8620 Check out the ChiaraMail site for an explanation of how this works. It should answer all your questions.

[slugiscool99]

that is cool

[FractalBob]

@cbcalkins8620 Correct.

[cbcalkins8620]

@FractalBob - What happens if the recepient closes their email client, Outlook, for example and then turns it on the following day. Then, on that following day, a change using your program is made. Is there still no trace?

[FractalBob]

@cbcalkins8620 No. The mail server does not detect any change whatsoever.

[cbcalkins8620]

@FractalBob - I can't imagine that there are no signs of 'changes made' in the email of the recipient. I'll bet that if the recipient receives a 'change' to his/her original email (by using your program), that there is traffic of some sort being entered on an email server. I am mostly concerned with the traces that are left after a change is made. If the email header is not changed, I think the email server will show some additional traffic to the email recepient, right?

[FractalBob]

@cbcalkins8620 I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that there's no problem in changing e-mail, as long as the e-mail in question hasn't previously been entered into evidence in a court of law. The philosophy here is that the sender of an e-mail owns the e-mail at all times, even after it has been sent. However, once it becomes evidence, I believe changing it would be fraudulent.