Posted on 06/24/2015 7:24:30 AM PDT by Sopater
t's something that has happened to all of us: you finish an email, hit send, and suddenly realize that you've made a typo or spelled the recipient's name wrong. Or you were much too angry when you wrote it. For Gmail users there has been a quiet and until-now-unadvertised fix for this, known as the "Undo Send" feature.
The feature does exactly what its name implies: it lets you un-send an email for a short while after sending. Of course, it isn't reaching out and snatching the email back -- it just holds the email for a brief period sufficient for you to evaluate your regrets -- but it can still be a life-saver. This feature has actually been available since March of 2009, but it has been hidden away in the Labs section of Gmail's settings.
Now the feature is finally making its way out of the Labs dungeon. Undo Send will soon be added as a "formal setting" for the web version of Gmail, Google announced today in a post on the Google App Updates blog.
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Right. And Google removes all traces of it from their servers. Such hot-headed emails are never sent to a special folder to be kept for use by politicians of a certain preferred persuasion or to cajole senders to Google's way of thinking about things. Right...
If you think google would use the contents of your email to blackmail you, then you probably shouldn’t be using gmail in the first place.
The only “Unsend button” anyone should use is the “Safe as Draft” button.
I’ll bet my brother-in-law who got drunk and sent his boss the a$$hole song and got fired wishes it had existed then. He lost $40k a year, doing that.
Google Chrome web browser will wiretap you so what do you think google does with your email?
They’ll get rid of this feature. At my first company we developed the same thing for Exchange, called it Torpedo. MS thought it was awesome, then killed it when the lawyers explained the implications.
google.gmail is nothing but a spy agency. Just before that big East Coast storm, I gmailed a friend in NJ, advising him to get a home generator. Ten minutes later I went to a news site. The whole right side of the page was ads for home generators!
I use gmail for work under our own domain name. It has always has an undo feature that lasts about 15 seconds.
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