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You Can Now Undo Sending a Gmail Message

Lot of of Gmail user might be feel happy while reading this post. Google recently added new features on Gmail labs. When we think of sending an email is that possible to undo the sending after hiting the send button, this was the serious problem for all the users can’t undo sending email. Now this can be easily done in Gmail with the use of UNDO SEND feature in Gmail labs. thanks to Niranjan and Alex Chitu who tells us about this amazing features for Gmail users.



If you ever send a Gmail message too early or you change your mind after you press “Send”, there’s a feature that will help you. It’s called “Undo Send” and you can find in the crowded space of experimental features from Gmail Labs.

After enabling the feature, Gmail will show an “undo” link when you send a message. You have to react quickly because the link disappears in 5 seconds and there’s no way to bring it back. If keyboard shortcuts are enabled in your Gmail account, a better option than clicking on “undo” is to press “z”. When you undo sending a mail, Gmail saves it as a draft and you can continue editing the message or discard it.


 

“Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can’t make her surprise party. I can rush to close my browser or unplug the Internet — but Gmail almost always wins that race. (…) I could undo just about any other action in Gmail — why couldn’t I undo send? (…) My theory (which others shared) was that even just five seconds would be enough time to catch most of those regrettable emails,” says Michael Leggett from Google.

I don’t think that 5 seconds are enough to realize that sending the message was a mistake, but it’s a good trade-off between functionality and the need to provide a reliable service. A simple improvement could be a configurable delay before sending messages.

if you really like  this cool new feature in Gmail and any suggestions, questons regaurding this post let me know your comments :)

 


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telescoppica
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By telescoppica12 months ago

It's always after hitting SEND that I remember that I forget an attachment. But if it's a big one, I usually re-write and include a Flickr link or something. :)

Ben
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By Ben12 months ago

5 seconds is plenty of time for the vast majority of "no, waits" I do. I usually have the forgetting an attachment problem.

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kaytiiangel
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By kaytiiangel12 months ago

I agree 5 seconds isn't enough but better than nothing. I don't know how many times I hit "send" then realize I've forgotten the attachment! Thank you for bringing this feature to my attention. I'll be looking for it.

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